On Mar 12, 2013 3:44 PM, "Timothy R. Fesig" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday March 11 2013 13:10, 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. > > > > ...... > You didn't mention if this is in a desktop or a laptop....
Sorry - Dell "FloorTop" (mini tower). Seriously EOL system. Consider it a desktop - probably my last one ever. > > Assuming it is a desktop you might try: > > 1. If the motherboard has a GPU in it then maybe enabling that in the BIOS may > provide a temporary solution. Pretty sure it does not (no on-board graphics at all, I think) but I will check. > 2. Try to boot a live CD and see if the replacement card is seen and works > there. If it does then take a look at the Xorg config to see what that > distribution is using as a driver. This might carry over to the installed > system. Nice idea - will try that soon. Seems it can't get much worse - and I still have good old command line :-) JC
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