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..
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