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geezerone
January 12th, 2009, 08:26 PM
Hi
I am looking to change graphics card from Nvidia to ATI and have a few questions:
What is the procedure (my xorg.conf states no specifics just "configured video device", "configured screen" etc under entries for each device)?
Is anything needed changing graphics cards with the same chip manufacturer (ATI or Nvidia)?
What is the procedure should the graphics card die when replacing (like one did for me a year or so ago) without re-installation?
TIA
cariboo
January 12th, 2009, 09:37 PM
You don't need to reinstall when you replace a graphics card. Ubuntu should autodetect the change and on startup use the open source driver. Once at the desktop make sure to do any updates before enabling the restricted driver.
Jim
hangfire
January 12th, 2009, 11:11 PM
Hi
What is the procedure should the graphics card die when replacing (like one did for me a year or so ago) without re-installation?
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Choose plain-jane VGA
Shut down and do your h/w swap. Boot up. Again, do:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Choose your new driver.
PS Tell us how it goes, remember to mark thread as "solved" and thanks.
-HF
geezerone
January 15th, 2009, 02:28 PM
I had already replaced card and booted into safe mode and xserver auto fix. I get a display but have no 3rd party driver in hardware drivers option (system). There is some graphics distortion during bootup/login screen too and can't use compiz anymore.
Any ideas without using envy/manual install?
ATI card replaced with ATI card.
xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
geezerone
January 18th, 2009, 03:44 PM
Can anyone help as this is a right royal pita?
I have done dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but this only detects keyboard.
I have no proprietary hardware drivers installed and no compiz effects too (e.g. 3d cube).
:mad:
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