StarTux wrote:
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By the way, you are very much on-topic and your rant may get someone thinking...
Who knows maybe they will make something that when you enter run level 5 and the X server bombs a program will detect this and then check (this is slightly more techie, maybe it could do an lspci -v and then check what is in /etc/XFree86 and see if the card types match) to see what the difference is. Maybe then it could offer to run X server setup (sax2).
Matt
Exactly! Or, I was thinking, if the x server bombs because of someone changing out the video card, maybe a generic default server would run. So you could at least see what your doing and get the correct server installed. One-year olds like me don't know how to use the command line very well yet.