Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

[ulrich steffens]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 00:57 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:59:24AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:10:09PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > > I was reading through this thread thinking: is there no way to rerun the
> > > > autodetection Ubuntu used on installing, it worked very well for me...
> > > 
> > > Yes, that would be ideal ! Please someone tell me how to do that...
> > > maybe just re-run "base-config" or something ??
> > > 
> > > Vince, bored with troublesome ATI card... :o(
> > 
> > sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
> > XORGFORCEPROBE=yes sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> 
> With current Hoary, it's simpler, right?  This definitely deserves a short
> how-to, though.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 
i experienced that even though ATI now supports xorg, the new
xorg-fglrx-driver and therefore 'fglrxconfig' doesent write a proper
xorg.conf. it still uses the xfree-format and writes the wrong keyboard
driver. 'Keyboard' instead of 'keyboard' or 'kbd'.

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- ulrich
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