If I wanted to upgrade my video card, say switch from an ATI 2400xt 256mb to a nVidia 8600gts 512mb, would I have to reinstall lmce? I've altered my xconf file for the ATI drivers, would I have to manually update them again for the nVidia or if I ran the AV/ setup wizard would it do that automatically?
Just wondering. Thanks,
crash
Hi Crash
I tried to upgrade the NVDIA card in my system from a 7200 to a 7800gtx but it did not work for me. I got the Transparancy error during the generation of the orbitor. I switched back to the 7200 and all I got was a red scree. I did try the option with the DVD installer to preserve the settings and home but that did not work either. I reinstalled Linuxmce with the new card and it worked without any problems. Orbitor seems a lot faster and screen redraws seem faster as well.
Hopefully someone with an ATI card can advise you.
Good luck.
Paul
Thanks!
With your 7800gtx, are you able to run UI2 w/a.b. as flawlessly as one might hope?
At this point I'm having so many issues with my card I'm looking to just buy a nVidia one to replace it.
I've been able to switch back and forth between different video cards without problem. Worst case when I was getting a blank screen, I would login via SSH and change the driver in the xorg.conf. Sometimes it would be necessary to do a first restart with the vesa driver, then change it to what you need (ati/nvidia etc) and restart again.
There must even be a way to just restart X and not the whole computer, but I did not find it...
Well I've managed to get everything working with my 8600gts, and now where I know I can get that one working I'm tempted to put my ATI card back in there and see if I can do the same. Although...tinkering is what got me into trouble the first time...
If you remember what you did to make the 8600 work, then you should be able to do it again if you have to, only much faster this time :-)
By the way I was talking about MDs, I have no idea if it's also that easy in a core. For an MD, worst case you can rebuild it...
Oh, yeah I was talking about my hybrid. I just set that up so I've yet to branch out to any MD's.