[SLUG] changing motherboards
I have to change motherboards which I've never done before. The old one has on board sound/video and no AGP slot (which is why I have to change). Using Ubuntu 7.04, should I be worried? Is it just a case of dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver dpkg-reconfigure alsa- or is it more complicated than that. I'm also a bit worried that fstab might get messed up. I've got one IDE and one SATA drive, and my system doesn't use the standard UUID that Ubuntu installs (that's a long story to do with Mondoarchive). thanks.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] changing motherboards
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:01:16 +1000, david wrote: Using Ubuntu 7.04, should I be worried? Probably not. Is it just a case of dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver dpkg-reconfigure alsa- or is it more complicated than that. If your motherboard has onboard networking, you may also need to change /etc/iftab to have the new MAC address. I'm also a bit worried that fstab might get messed up. I've got one IDE and one SATA drive, and my system doesn't use the standard UUID that I wouldn't expect the device names to change. Sometimes the ordering of hd* changes between releases (Breezy - Dapper did that to me), but it's unlikely to do that if all you're doing is changing the motherboard. Cheers, John -- I find the iron law of Oracle holds for almost all software: *Every* default setting is wrong, often painfully so. -- Chris Adams -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] changing motherboards
david wrote: I have to change motherboards which I've never done before. The old one has on board sound/video and no AGP slot (which is why I have to change). Using Ubuntu 7.04, should I be worried? Is it just a case of dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver dpkg-reconfigure alsa- or is it more complicated than that. A new motherboard will most likely have new chipsets in them, and thus requires different drivers from the ones you're using. New drivers may be needed for your chipset, USB and/or firewire chipsets, network card, audio, video to name a few. The mb's power management system might also be different. Fortunately for you I think most common drivers are loaded into the kernel and swapping mb's should be more painless than a Windows system. There really is no way to tell what'll happen until you do the swap. Worst thing that could happen is for you to re-install Ubuntu, which isn't that bad really...if you backup your data properly. Carlo I'm also a bit worried that fstab might get messed up. I've got one IDE and one SATA drive, and my system doesn't use the standard UUID that Ubuntu installs (that's a long story to do with Mondoarchive). thanks.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
