Changed videocard, X not working

[Edwin Dicker]

> > 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