Change Graphic Card & Monitor in v9.3
Hi, I have a machine that is getting a little 'old in the tooth' by current standards but still does its job ok. It is 1.6MHz Pentium4. It has really crappy video card (MX100/200) and an 'ancient' 17" CRT monitor. I don't do any serious gaming but my eyes are not what they used to be, so I decided a modest upgrade to the video card and a new 17" LCD monitor would be a good investment. I am only going up to FX5900 Nvidia and Samsung monitor. I have in the last few days updated to SuSEv9.3 (clean install) and everything is working as I would like (even better actually). I use XFce4 as window manager. I have no experience with upgrading hardware components under SuSE however. If someone could take me through any critical steps I should take to have the new hardware detected properly, I would appreciate it? I assume the Nvidia drivers remain the same as they are generic across all cards I believe? Is the process just 'plug-n-play'? I boot to level 3 BTW and use 'startx' to load X system. Any relevant guidance would be helpful?! Paul.
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 01:26, Paul Trevethan wrote:
Hi, I have a machine that is getting a little 'old in the tooth' by current standards but still does its job ok. It is 1.6MHz Pentium4. It has really crappy video card (MX100/200) and an 'ancient' 17" CRT monitor. I don't do any serious gaming but my eyes are not what they used to be, so I decided a modest upgrade to the video card and a new 17" LCD monitor would be a good investment. I am only going up to FX5900 Nvidia and Samsung monitor.
I have in the last few days updated to SuSEv9.3 (clean install) and everything is working as I would like (even better actually). I use XFce4 as window manager. I have no experience with upgrading hardware components under SuSE however.
If someone could take me through any critical steps I should take to have the new hardware detected properly, I would appreciate it? I assume the Nvidia drivers remain the same as they are generic across all cards I believe? Is the process just 'plug-n-play'? I boot to level 3 BTW and use 'startx' to load X system.
I've only done this once. Then, the hardware scan on boot detected that the hardware had changed, and started sax in the boot process, and it then took me to a working X. Yes, the nvidia drivers are the same, so that shouldn't have to be changed If you don't get the 'new hardware' notification when you boot and you land in a text console, log in as root, go to runlevel 3 with the command "init 3", then run sax2. Configure it until you're happy with the settings, save, and go to runlevel 5 again with "init 5" and you're done
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