Re: [newbie] switching video cads (what do i need to do?)

[Robin Turner]

Paul Rodriguez wrote:

Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible
GeForce4 on recommendation of the list.  Is there any prepping I need to
do to my system before I switch cards?  Can I just swap out the cards
first and then install the drivers?  Or do I need to edit inittab to
start are runlevel 3, switch cards, and install nvidia drivers, then
switch back to runlevel 5?

Harddrake/kudzu will detect your new card and install the XFree86 drivers (worked for me when upgrading from a Trident to a GeForce). Then you can install nVidia's drivers and edit your XF86Config-4 file as per the README. Alternatively, install the nVidia drivers before changing cards, edit the config file and save it to something like XF86config-4.new. Then change cards, boot into runlevel 3, mv your old config file to something like XF86Config-4.panic (don't use ".old" as that's the default file for old versions and can be overwritten) and finally mv your new file into position. Cross fingers and startx.

Sir Robin




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Robin Turner
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Bilkent University
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Turkey

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