F8 - change video card?

Terry Polzin foxec208 at wowway.com
Mon Feb 18 21:15:50 UTC 2008


On Monday 18 February 2008 09:51, Henk Breimer wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:14:06 -0600
>
> Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > I was just thinking....
> >
> > In the event that I have to change from the integrated Intel video
> > chipset on this motherboard and start using a separate video card to
> > obtain DVI output, will Fedora 8 automatically detect and make the
> > necessary change?
> >
> > If, for example, I put in an ATI card, will everything "just work",
> > or will I have to do a bunch of setup and changes?  Since I don't
> > really have a whole lot of material on this computer yet (I haven't
> > really finished setting it up completely yet) perhaps it would be
> > simplest to just to a complete reinstall?
> >
> > Or will everything just keep on clicking along without any grief?
> >
> > --
> > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
> >
> > --
>
> Look on Intel site for ADD2.
> HP makes a PCI card for this technology.
> The card gives dvi output from the intel integrated hardware
> Have fun , Henk
When I make video changes, I backup the config files and then boot into 
runlevel 3 and run system-config-display --reconfig
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