Trident TGUI 9660 Setup

[Steve]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:06:06 +0100, Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>  
wrote:

> Fred Roller wrote:
>> Teddy Vincent wrote:
>>> Have just changed video cards from NVIDIA to an old Trident TGUI 9660 I
>>> had kicking around. When I try to configure it from
>>> System->Administration->Display it tries to take me to the NVIDIA  
>>> config
>>> program. I'm just trying to set the screen resolution higher than
>>> 640X480.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Teddy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Have you deactivated the driver? or purged if necessary?
>>
>
> yeah if you change out a video card, you need to change drivers as well,
> if i had to take a guess the only one that may work is vesa for an older
> card like that.
>
> try sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg then reboot
>
> or grub recovery mode, then "xfix" and reboot
>
> one of the 2 should work.
>
> if for some reason one of the above fails, edit xorg.conf and plug
> "vesa" in for the driver and reboot, thatll definately work, i doubt
> youll get anything more than 800x600 though?
>
>
>
>
There is a Trident driver for Xorg so you should be able to get a decent  
resolution.

-- 
Steve