On dimanche 22 juillet 2007, Chris Jones wrote: > > I have never done this but today the Fedora kernels have just about > > every graphic card known in them. But yours sounds a bit special so > > there may be a problem. The way to do it will be to open the computer > > while it is turned off, remove your current card and put in the new > > card and boot your FC6. > > The kernel has nothing to do with this. > > Whats important is whether the Xorg version you are running supports your > new card. What I would do is. > > 1. Backup your current xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) so you save > your current settings, which work with your current card. > > 2. Trun off and replace the card. > > 3. Turn on. If you are lucky, at this point kudzu, the hardware detector, > will kick in to tell you your hardware has changed and ask if you want to > configure it. I'm not sure, since I've never done this, but I would hope > this should rewrite your current xorg.conf file for your new hardware... > (basically just replace the driver). Thank you Chris, it has worked like a charm. I checked that the nv rpm package was already installed, I turned on kudzu, changed the card, backed up my Xorg.conf file, and voila. Reboot, and kudzu didn't ask nothing, but I suppose it did something as Xorg.conf has been changed automagically to match my new graphic card, > 4. ALl going well when you finish the boot continues and X is up and > running. If not, then post your Xorg.log here for help. > > 5. If it does, then at this point you have a decision. If the default OSS > nv driver (which is what Xorg will give you) is enough, then thats it. If > you want 3D suport, you will need to install the nvidia binary driver, > making sure to choose the one that is compatible with your card. Looking > at > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/appendix >-a.html it seems you can use the main release, and don't have to bother > with the legacy ones (which I need to run) Can you give me more info on that. I have installed : xorg-x11-drv-nv-1.2.0-4.fc6 But you say, that with it I don't have 3D support ? lspci gives me : 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 What rpm file do I have to download according to my new card to get such support ? Thank you. Francois
