On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:31:10, Jack Chastain wrote: > On Mar 12, 2013 12:25 AM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote:
[...] > > 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. [...] > 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. Yeah, a lot of systems run without an xorg.conf file by default. In that case, the thing to do is to boot up a LiveCD (such as Knoppix) and copy over the xorg.conf file that gets created at boot time. The "vesa" driver is the best temporary fallback for Nvidia cards. The other thing you might try is the 'nouveau' driver. [The nouveau driver is known to (mostly) work for the GeForce FX 5200.] > 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=95929aea85597fa1c695bd63 > 7b000941&page=2 Since there's 10 posts in that page, I can't tell what you followed. > > I installed nvidia-173, ran nvidia-csonfig and had an xorg.conf file - > rebooted, not better. Tried removing all that, tried nvidia-current, got an > SF86Config file this time - but won't even boot now. nvidia-current will not work. Version 173 of the nvidia driver was the last version that contained drivers for the GeForce FX 5200. [You can look up the recommended version of the driver at Nvidia's site.] > Tried removing that and going back to -173, still can't get the xorg.conf > file back. There's a command line option to Xorg to have it make a default xorg.conf.new file, but I don't recall off the top of my head what it is. -- 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
