As much as I would love a fresh start and to install a newer distro the
problem with that is all the newer distros have xorg using xrandr to replace
xinerama and xrandr does not support more then two monitors, I have four. It
so sucks to be me :)

I am hoping Ibex fixes the xrandr problem.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On 10/17/08, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Solution is to boot with a live CD. Get a console and run lsmod|grep ata,
> > this will list the modules needed. Then chroot the harddrive and edit
> > /etc/modules.conf that is the file that the Mandriva version of mkinitrd
> > uses. There are lines in there that tell the system modules to use,
> change
> > them to the new modules. Then run mkinitrd as normal. I don't know if
> > reinstalling the MBR for GRUB is needed but I did that last and when I
> > rebooted things were back to normal.
>
> I feel your pain.  Despite your problems, I've still found this much
> easier to do than trying to do the same thing in Windows XP (HAL
> errors! ARG!)
>
> Nowadays, I view a new mobo as a fresh start, a time to clean my
> system from stale apps and garbage cluttering various directories.  Of
> course, I'm not running a production system, either.
>
> Good job on getting your problem solved so quickly!
>
> -Mark C.
>
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