I decided that a new (more) 'soopa-doopa' graphics card would be in order to
replace my low-end nVidia card. Naively perhaps, I thought that (K)Ubuntu's
hardware detection would deal with the change. It didn't.
The new card is an ATI X1650 Pro and is clearly working because the startup
screens all work. However, when KDM is started it doesn't. I can get into a
virtual console so something is working on the graphics side, but I can't get
into the desktop.
I had a look in xorg.conf and it is still set to the nVidia driver, hence the
lack of life. See below:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Boardname "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 0
Vendorname "NVIDIA"
EndSection
Obviously, I could hack xorg.conf but is there a 'proper' way? Should
hardware detection have worked? Ideally, I'd like the system to automatically
generate the new xorg.conf file since Kubuntu has always done a good job
before. If not, where can I find out the proper settings for xorg.conf? Is
it sufficient to just change the Driver name and fix the rest later? If not,
how much do I need to change?
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Terry Coles
64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux
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