Hi everyone, The time has come to swap out my old PCI ELSA Winner video card for an AGP nVidia Quadro I got on EBAY. I'm trying to come up with the best way to get SuSE 8.1 to handle the change with the least disruption. Here is what seems to be the best way: 1 shutdown, power off, remove PCI card, put AGP card in 2 start PC and make any required changes to the BIOS settings 3 re-boot SuSE into a text screen 4 run SAX2 and re-configure X to the new Video card 5 re-boot But I haven't figured out how to tell LILO to boot onlt a text console and I don't know how to setup the system for the nVidia code to use 3D Does anyone have any hints, tips or critques? PeterB -- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter B Van Campen" <peterb924@ameritech.net> To: "SuSE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: [SLE] Changing Video card Hi everyone, The time has come to swap out my old PCI ELSA Winner video card for an AGP nVidia Quadro I got on EBAY. I'm trying to come up with the best way to get SuSE 8.1 to handle the change with the least disruption. Here is what seems to be the best way: 1 shutdown, power off, remove PCI card, put AGP card in 2 start PC and make any required changes to the BIOS settings 3 re-boot SuSE into a text screen 4 run SAX2 and re-configure X to the new Video card 5 re-boot But I haven't figured out how to tell LILO to boot onlt a text console and I don't know how to setup the system for the nVidia code to use 3D Does anyone have any hints, tips or critques? Don't worry, you'll be invited by suse to configure your new card with sax2 while being in text mode. Catimimi PeterB -- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 -- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
At the boot prompt enter linux 3 to boot to a console only. On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:41:25 +0100 "Catimimi" <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter B Van Campen" <peterb924@ameritech.net> To: "SuSE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: [SLE] Changing Video card
Hi everyone,
The time has come to swap out my old PCI ELSA Winner video card for an AGP nVidia Quadro I got on EBAY. I'm trying to come up with the best way to get SuSE 8.1 to handle the change with the least disruption. Here is what seems to be the best way: 1 shutdown, power off, remove PCI card, put AGP card in 2 start PC and make any required changes to the BIOS settings 3 re-boot SuSE into a text screen 4 run SAX2 and re-configure X to the new Video card 5 re-boot
But I haven't figured out how to tell LILO to boot onlt a text console and I don't know how to setup the system for the nVidia code to use 3D
Does anyone have any hints, tips or critques?
Don't worry, you'll be invited by suse to configure your new card with sax2 while being in text mode.
Catimimi
PeterB -- --
Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2
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This sounds like a good idea to get into linux without KDE in case of a problem. What do I put in my lilo.conf file to make "linux Console a menu item"? On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:50, Ken Schneider wrote:
At the boot prompt enter
linux 3
to boot to a console only.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:41:25 +0100
"Catimimi" <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter B Van Campen" <peterb924@ameritech.net> To: "SuSE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: [SLE] Changing Video card
Hi everyone,
The time has come to swap out my old PCI ELSA Winner video card for an AGP nVidia Quadro I got on EBAY. I'm trying to come up with the best way to get SuSE 8.1 to handle the change with the least disruption. Here is what seems to be the best way: 1 shutdown, power off, remove PCI card, put AGP card in 2 start PC and make any required changes to the BIOS settings 3 re-boot SuSE into a text screen 4 run SAX2 and re-configure X to the new Video card 5 re-boot
But I haven't figured out how to tell LILO to boot onlt a text console and I don't know how to setup the system for the nVidia code to use 3D
Does anyone have any hints, tips or critques?
Don't worry, you'll be invited by suse to configure your new card with sax2 while being in text mode.
Catimimi
PeterB -- --
Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2
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