On Mar 12, 2013 12:25 AM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 I presume this is because my drivers are no longer valid for this card.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.
That's what I was looking for. Of course, it can't be that easy.... Booted to Recovery Mode, opened a root shell from the recovery menu, there exists only "xorg.conf.failsafe" - and it doesn't appear to have anything meaningful in it (Driver "vesa") - side note, in "safe" mode I do have graphics, but not in normal boot. lspci says "VGA compatable controller : NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)" Based on items in this post, I ran some apt-get commands and tried rebuilding the nvidia bits: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966987&s=95929aea85597fa1c695bd637b000941&page=2 I installed nvidia-173, ran nvidia-csonfig and had an xorg.conf file - rebooted, not better. Tried removinga ll that, tried nvidia-current, got an SF86Config file this time - but won't even boot now. Tried removing that and going back to -173, still can't get the xorg.conf file back. I am going to give up for now and go out and look for new laptops ;-) Any further ideas I will try later - maybe tonight. Thanks! JC
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