[ale] Switching video drivers

[Jim Kinney]

as root edit/etc/inittab and set runlevel to 3.

reboot
log in as root and run

service kudzu start
that should pick up the card change and configure X

startx

if things are still off after X is up, system->administration->display will
gui-fy a resetting. Some resolution changes require restarting X. As you are
not running a 'dm, just log out and startx again

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:

> Brian Pitts wrote:
> > hscast at charter.net wrote:
> >
> >> Keeps on switching back to nvidia after reboot.
> >>
> >
> > Did you remove the nvidia card? If you had it installed, did you remove
> > nvidia's binary driver?
> >
> > -Brian
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> I had already removed the nVIDIA card. Removing the drivers and all of
> compiz-fusion seemed to fix it. Now I have to go through everything to
> fix the appearance. FireFox displays everything so large that I can read
> it from the next room without glasses, while T'bird I need a magnifying
> glass to read the folders and lists, message preview is okay. Everything
> is out of wack as far as proportions. It seems to lock into res of
> 1024x768, with the nVIDIA card I had 1440x900.
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