[H-GEN] Changing video cards

[Joel Michael]

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On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:22, Mick Howe wrote:
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> I a burst of [inspiration|lunacy] I just bought a new video card (TNT2 M64 - 
> 32mb) and thought maybe I should seek some advice on how to go about 
> replacing my old S3 virge gx2.
> 
> running RH7.1 & KDE upto date as at easter monday.
> 
All you should need to do is change the Device section of your XFree86
config file.  Mine looks like:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NVidia TNT2 m64"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        VideoRam        32768
EndSection

The driver you need to use is 'nv' if you're using stock standard
XFree86 drivers, or 'nvidia' if you're using the enhanced NVidia drivers
downloaded directly from NVidia.

There may be a GUI-ish way to do this, possibly Xconfigurator.  It's
been a LONG while since I've used it, tho.  Read the manual pages first.
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