[Eug-lug] Using a Live CD to unscrew yourself

[erock23175 at aol.com]

Well as many of you know I am embarking on the adventure of trying to install an accelerated graphics card. Well yesterday I tried to do just that after coming home (had to extract it from my Windows box first), and failed. For some reason I was under the impression that the software was installed and all I had to do was type "nv" in the field for Device on my xorg.conf file, and bam UT2K4 here I come!.....Wrong! for some stupid reason Xserver wouldn't work and I got that annoying blue red grey and white screen telling me something is wrong with my video. I go to edit the Device field (and I forgot to back up my previous settings. So now I can't even get the display to work with the card I took out of the machine to begin with! Then it hit me, the live CD loads whether you've got the right drivers for the card installed or not! SO I booted off the CD, opened the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in nano, copied down the right entry for the card listed under "Device" in the Display section, restarted without the CD, got a command prompt and entered the correct info into the "Device" line of my existing xorg.conf file. Success!  Now that I know it works with my current card, I'm left to wonder, would the same work for my Nvidia card?

-E

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