On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:46 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video
> > card, change the Driver line from
> >     Driver  "ati"
> > to
> >     Driver  "fglrx"
> > 
> > And then reboot.
> 
> Are you a windows support person...

Are you a big hairy troll?

> ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server.
> 
> gdm will create a new version with the new settings.

That's fine unless you happen to be using DRI, which the ati module
usually does, the the fglrx module almost always does. In that case you
also need to unload and reload appropriate kernel modules. I could have
given a step by step list on how to do that, too, but I didn't.

But I'm surprised you didn't give the actual correct thing to do - hit
ctrl-d to exit single user mode. Ubuntu then flips to runlevel 2 and
finishes booting, including loading the correct kernel modules and
starting X with DRI.

> Almost never a need to reboot a Linux machine.

*shrug* Sometimes I prefer to reboot than go through 37 steps to
preserve my precious uptime.

-- 
Pete

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