Hardware upgrade & FC3?

Pedro Fernandes Macedo webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br
Sat Jan 15 19:21:59 UTC 2005


Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>lør, 15.01.2005 kl. 18.28 skrev Terry Polzin:
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>>On Saturday January 15 2005 11:11, Arangel Angov wrote:
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>>>I have FC3 installed at the moment on a lucky star KT100 motherboard,
>>>with 512SD RAM and AMD Athlon 1.4GHz proccessor. I just got a good deal
>>>on a brand new Soltek motherboard, 512 DDR RAM and AMD Athlon 2.4GHz
>>>processor. My question is, how will fedora handle this hardware upgrade,
>>>first of all will it boot? The HDD an all other other hardware will
>>>remain as they are.
>>>
>>>I just don't want to try it before I ask someone.. don't want to do a
>>>new install if not nessecary.
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>>What kind of HD and video?
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>Shouldn't video be OK as long as you use free drivers? When i switched
>my voodo 3 for a flashy new geforce 2mx, FC2 did all correct, asked me a
>couple of questions like "vodoo removal detected, reconfigure?" and
>"nvidia attachment detected - configure?". All i did was "yes", and gdm
>etc came up nicely.
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Even with closed drivers , it shouldnt be an issue.. Except for ATI 
cards.. The fglrx config tool adds a line to the X config that says the 
device ID (or bus ID , dont remmember now the exactly item) that is 
motherboard dependent....
I had a bit of headache trying to understand what was going on and it 
took some time till found the option hidden in the X config...
now , for nvidia cards with the binary driver , works perfectly.. My 
brother changed his motherboard and everything worked as it should...

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Pedro Macedo




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