Reconfigure after changing Video Card

Ronald Artos ronartos at gmail.com
Sat Jul 31 04:02:00 UTC 2010


the Nvidia card is already busted, so I cannot deactivate it in
System->Administration->Hardware Drivers



On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>wrote:

> On 31/07/2010 11:55, Ronald Artos wrote:
> > I used to have an Nvidia Video Card.. but now it is broken and return
> > to my old built-in  "[SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx", I don't
> > wish to reinstall everything again. But when I boot up, I always end
> > up in a video reconfiguration screen in ubuntu, so i deleted  the
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> >
> > It works but everytime I enter System -> Preferences -> Monitors.. it
> > always prompts me the nvidia-config, and when I do glxinfo or
> > glxgears, I get errors like I haven't configured my video correctly.
> >
> > How can I properly reconfigure everything after a change in video card??
>
>
> Sounds like you still have the nVidia driver installed. Go-
>
> System>Administration>Hardware Drivers and de-activate the nVidia
> driver; then see if Hardware Drivers comes up with another driver for
> the onboard video you have.
>
> BC
>
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