Detecting a new graphic card

[Paul Smith]

On 8/16/06, oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:
> >> > How to tell the system to detect a new graphic card and install the
> >> > respective drivers?
> >>
> >> Command: system-config-display
> >
> > Thanks, Joachim. I have just done that, but it is strange that as a
> > normal user, the quality of the image looks fine, but when I run a
> > graphical program as root, I get a bad quality image. A screenshot is
> > at:
> >
> > http://phhs80.googlepages.com/graphics_card.png
> >
> > Any further ideas?
> >
>         I recommend you try system-config-display with the --reconfig option as
> this will ignore current settings and (I believe) probe your card for
> all new values.
>
>         Let me know if this works as I hope to get a new video card today.

Thanks a lot, Scott. Your idea works fine, and I have now no problem
regarding graphics card. Even the reported problem with Thunderbird
has disappeared.

Paul