[ale] Switching video drivers

[hscast at charter.net]

---- hscast at charter.net wrote: 
> 
> ---- Steve Brown <braino420 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Odd, I thought Fedora had the failsafe X where it would load a generic
> > xorg.conf if you were to lose the GUI. You could try moving the current
> > xorg.conf somewhere else and see if it will auto-generate another one for
> > you:
> > mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
> > Then you could try typing in: startx
> > If that doesn't work, since you already have a good idea about what video
> > driver you use, you could open up xorg.conf, go down to the "Device"
> > section, and change "Driver" to point to the savage driver (I think it's
> > simply called "savage").
> > As root:
> > cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > Then type 'startx' to try it.
> > If none of the above works, you'll have to ask one of the Fedora gurus on
> > the list what the equivalent command of 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xofg' is
> > :)
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Steve Brown
> Thanks for your reply, let you know if that works. When I boot up it goes to text mode and then at login when x is supposed to start it just keeps on flashing finally switching to tty1, leaving tty7 inop.
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Keeps on switching back to nvidia after reboot. I had gotten it to work then it did a massive update rebooted back to original problem, even after manually editing xorg.conf