> > I need some help of you experts. I have changed my FC2 configuration and > > changed my videocard from a PCI S3virge 2MB to a AGP Matrox G200 8MB. I just > > shutdown the box, removed the PCIcard, insert the AGP card and booted ( in > > the hope that kudzu would recognize the changes. > > Apparently Kudzu doesnt see the change and X won't start. > > Is there another way to reconfigure the system so that I can run X again > > with my new AGP card ? > > Whenever I make changes to the video settings, the fisrt thing i do is > change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3. This brings the system > up in text mode. X can then be started manually with "startx". This > means that if the graphics setup gets bjorked, you can recover without too > much hairpulling. > > Then all you need to do is change the video card setting in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Look in the device section for Driver and change what > the S3 card was using (s3virge?) and change it to "mga". > > Not certain why anaconda is not handling that. It should, but I have seen > other cases where anaconda is failing to detect things it should not. > Alan, Thanks, that was the 'trick'. Why is it that kudzu did not recognize the change and why would system-config-display --reconfig not do the job ? cheers Edwin
