Re: [SLE] Recommended Steps to swap out video cards

Mike McMullin wrote:

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:25 -0500, Sunny wrote:

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On 4/10/06, Elijah Savage wrote:

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I want to get rid of this ATI card and go to Geforce 6600. Is there anything that I need to know or should do before venturing down this road. I did not get much info from sir google :).

Thank you

1. Swap the card. 2. On the boot screen, press F3 (Options) and type "3" for boot parameters. This is going to boot you in runlevel 3 3. login as root 4. uninstall the ati driver, if you had installed any 5. follow the instructions here to install the nvidia driver: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html

Why not go to the trouble of backing up a copy of the xorg config file first? It could make life easier in case one needs to swap the old card back in.

Followed these instructions and everything came up fine, but in YAST under hardware should the video card say VESA Framebuffer? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------