On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 16:49 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to back out of installing a new graphics card on a > > > system running FC11. Is there a file I can backup and then restore from > > > run level 3 if things don't work? I thought this file > > > was /etc/X11/xorg.conf but it doesn't seem to be there.... > > > > > If your system works without /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then you do not > > have anything to back up your system is auto-configuring itself at > > bootup. If you find you do need one with the new card, then you can > > just delete it if you go back to the old card. > > Mikkel > > -- > Although the new card didn't work I was able to go back to the old > (onboard) one and reboot without problems. > > Now, the matter of the new card. It's nvidia GeForce 6200 512MB -- of > the Series 6 (I think) which, according to > > http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Main_Page#Nvidia_.28For_GeForce_6.2C_7.2C_8.2C_9_.26_200_series_cards.29 > > should work with FC11, although gamers on the Web complain about it's > being too old and slow. It works fine through the grub menu and the boot > process up to starting X -- and then the monitor stops getting a signal. > > According to fedoraguide a driver for this card can be installed by > running: > > yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs. > This (and a lot of other things) didn't work. What finally did work was installing kmod-nvidia (a guess) and rebooting into the new kernel. Everything seems fine now. Why I have no idea. Not to get all Marvin Gaye here... but what's goin' on? Do cards from nvidia require a separate set of kernels? (If this question doesn't have a short answer maybe someone could suggest a webpage to look at....) Jerry -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
