how about adding a video card?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Dear boys and girls.

I did that!

system-config-display did not work.

But I pulled out video card from older computer, I put it in the new
one (as a second one), connected monitor there, and things are just
automagically working... :)

Thanks for all helpful suggestions. !!!

Well, now I am quite happy: 2.8 GHz and 1.5G RAM for just $ 160 ;) And
I am on Linux, again.. ;)

zb.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Perhaps a solution would be in adding a video card?
>
> But how do I force the system to recognise and use another video card?
>
> zb.
>
> On 7/22/08, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On 7/22/08, John Vetterli <jvetterli-Rn4VEauK+AKRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:44:28PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>> > > ...
>> > > Now I have another problem. I took HD from the older machine (Linux)
>> > > and put it in newer one. I can boot. I did even yum upgrade (this is
>> > > now become 5.2 CentOS). But I can not start X. Video card is on
>> > > motherboard. I have no idea what kind of video cheep it is. Looking to
>> > > log files did not give me a clue.
>> > > How can I at least have VGA mode? I dont want to use Windows ;) And I
>> > > have a lot of valuable data on my Linux HD... ;(
>> >
>> > Have you tried running "Xorg -configure"?  Looking through the
>> > config file that "-configure" generates is much easier than looking
>> > through the log files.
>>
>> I did run Xorg -configure. It generates a file which however does not
>> start X. The file content is somewhat strange. Since I am now on
>> windows I can not cite. My understanding was, when reading the file
>> that it had zeros instead of screan resolutions, or something like
>> that. I guess the video is not recognized. But, what a sh*t, I should
>> be able to have at least VGA mode, dont you think? And I do not know
>> how to make it...
>>
>> >
>> > HTH
>> > JV
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