On Monday, March 11, 2013 13:10:05, Jack Chastain wrote: > Greetings > > I had my (relatively) nice video card (Radeon HD2400 Pro) go south on me > recently. I had a lesser card (not entirely sure at this writing what it > is, but think it is a little 64M basic digital graphics card - no-name > brand) that gets me back online, but Linux has an issue and I am guessing > it is the video driver. > > When I boot the system, the login splash and everything looks perfect, but > when I log in, I get a white screen completely devoid of ... anything. > (Booting to Windoze works fine but it did go through a lot of graphics > changes on it's own). > > I presume this is because my drivers are no longer valid for this card. > > What's the best way to go about resetting my video driver so that it can > use this card? Do I need to re-install, or can I get away with a somewhat > lighter touch?
You don't want to reinstall if you can help it -- that's painful. Mainly what you need to do is modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to point to the correct Xorg driver for the "new" card. What I usually do is use the output of 'lspci' to figure out what the video card is, then look up which Xorg driver should go with that device, then modify the xorg.conf file. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
