Changed videocard, X not working

[alan]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Edwin Dicker wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I need some help of you experts. I have changed my FC2 configuration and
> changed my videocard from a PCI S3virge 2MB to a AGP Matrox G200 8MB. I just
> shutdown the box, removed the PCIcard, insert the AGP card and booted ( in
> the hope that kudzu would recognize the changes.
> Apparently Kudzu doesnt see the change and X won't start.
> Is there another way to reconfigure the system so that I can run X again
> with my new AGP card ?

Whenever I make changes to the video settings, the fisrt thing i do is 
change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3.  This brings the system 
up in text mode.  X can then be started manually with "startx".  This 
means that if the graphics setup gets bjorked, you can recover without too 
much hairpulling.

Then all you need to do is change the video card setting in 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Look in the device section for Driver and change what 
the S3 card was using (s3virge?) and change it to "mga".

Not certain why anaconda is not handling that. It should, but I have seen 
other cases where anaconda is failing to detect things it should not.