cr22rc
2007-07-11, 06:26 PM CDT
Hi,
I'm going to this weekend upgrade my video card to support a new display. I'm really unfamiliar with X11 stuff and all I can remember is some real pain I went through in early years of linux and dealing with video so it's always been for me "once bitten twice shy" .. I found some advice here I'll quote below but can any expert add more ... maybe with regard to the latest F7 ? I'm running GNome not sure if that make too much of a difference and x86_64. I assume I should fix it like this says so it boots to console mode first. The "Xorg -config" will do all the configuration. The card I have is a GeForce 7950 GT nvidia ... I guess i need to get their drivers too and hope they have some instructions. Will the below configuration pick up these drivers ? If I copy or zip up my X11 directory prior to everything and things don't go to plan can I just restore that and the old card to keep running?
There's no big risk in doing that (putting in a new card).
But to make it easy you can change fedora to boot to
level 3 (no Xwindows) instead of the usual level 5 (GUI stuff)
by passing grub a option "3" when it gets to the grub menu.
(you go in the grub edit mode and put a 3 in the option list
passed to the kernel and boot with that)
That way when you boot with the new card it goes right
to basic console that pretty much any card will support.
Then you can move your existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
aside :
su -
put in root password
cd /etc/X11
cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.sav
Xorg -configure
I think the new xorg.conf file will go to /root
so copy it to /etc/X11.
cp /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11
you can then look it over to see if it looks reasonable,
(suppose the card is nvidia, then the driver being "radeon" would
be suspicious).
You can now test is right off by exiting root "su" mode
to become your normal user and type startx
#> exit
$> startx
if that starts up X ok you're done
Mark
I'm going to this weekend upgrade my video card to support a new display. I'm really unfamiliar with X11 stuff and all I can remember is some real pain I went through in early years of linux and dealing with video so it's always been for me "once bitten twice shy" .. I found some advice here I'll quote below but can any expert add more ... maybe with regard to the latest F7 ? I'm running GNome not sure if that make too much of a difference and x86_64. I assume I should fix it like this says so it boots to console mode first. The "Xorg -config" will do all the configuration. The card I have is a GeForce 7950 GT nvidia ... I guess i need to get their drivers too and hope they have some instructions. Will the below configuration pick up these drivers ? If I copy or zip up my X11 directory prior to everything and things don't go to plan can I just restore that and the old card to keep running?
There's no big risk in doing that (putting in a new card).
But to make it easy you can change fedora to boot to
level 3 (no Xwindows) instead of the usual level 5 (GUI stuff)
by passing grub a option "3" when it gets to the grub menu.
(you go in the grub edit mode and put a 3 in the option list
passed to the kernel and boot with that)
That way when you boot with the new card it goes right
to basic console that pretty much any card will support.
Then you can move your existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
aside :
su -
put in root password
cd /etc/X11
cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.sav
Xorg -configure
I think the new xorg.conf file will go to /root
so copy it to /etc/X11.
cp /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11
you can then look it over to see if it looks reasonable,
(suppose the card is nvidia, then the driver being "radeon" would
be suspicious).
You can now test is right off by exiting root "su" mode
to become your normal user and type startx
#> exit
$> startx
if that starts up X ok you're done
Mark