Changing to different video card properly

[Barry Yu]

Benjamin Lewis wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
>   
>> On 6/4/07, Christopher Mocock <chris at wavestore.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Barry Yu wrote:
>>>       
>>>> FC6 - Every time I changed from a video card to a different one I
>>>>         
>>> always
>>>       
>>>> got problem mainly the X server won't start, when removed xorg.conf
>>>> filel and restartx sometimes it will auto detect the new card but not
>>>> every time.
>>>> What is the the proper procedure to switch to a new video card?
>>>> Especially the new one is a dual head ATI X1300 chip.
>>>> What is the difference between X -config and system-config-display
>>>>         
>>> I switched from an ATI card to an Nvidia last week on FC6 and it worked
>>> fine. Xorg detected the change and switched to the non-accelerated nv
>>> driver. I then went to Nvidia's site, grabbed the driver, had to mess
>>> around with xorg.conf for a while to get acceleration working properly,
>>> but all in all it only took about 45 minutes.
>>>
>>> I can understand your wariness though, I've had big problems in the
>>> past, but I think Xorg is a lot more intelligent at defaulting to a
>>> sensible config these days. Still, Benjamin Lewis' advice is worth
>>> taking.
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>>       
>> If you know that you are going to change the card download the driver
>> software before you make the change. After the hardware change boot to
>> runlevel 3, install the drivers, and run "system-config-display
>> --reconfig".
>>
>>     
> You might want to hold off upgrading to F7 if your using a X1300, as the
> open source driver doesn't support it and ATI's drivers don't yet
> support F7.
>
> Man I hate closed source drivers.
>
>   
This is not a piece of cutting edge for quite a while already - at lease 
more than a year and half, can't believe it!