Replaced graphics card, now what?

[Jonesy]

It's dumb question time, sorry about this.

My old NVidia Geforce 2 graphics card had a visit from the bad cap fairy so I replaced it with an HIS Radeon X1050
but now it will only boot to a prompt. How do I get around this?. It's been soooo long since I had a problem of any kind
because this OS is so darned good, I forgot how to fix simple things like this  .

Running a fully updated Minime 2009 install.

[T6]

if you can log in in console, write XFdrake(as root if i remember correctly), select the driver vendor/ati x1950 and earlier, i don't remember how it works in this situation but it should be easy to do in console or maybe it shows a basic graphic environment

ideally you should change the driver to vesa at lower resolution before removing the video card but if the video card wasn't working, that wasn't possible

[caudell]

You don't need a console.  At the prompt log in as root.  Now type in XFdrake and press enter.  This will allow you to configure your new card.

[ruel24]

Just as a note, stick with nVidia cards and you won't have this problem. ATi's support isn't so good, and installation of drivers, I've read, can be tricky on just about all distros.

[logicmaster]

hmm which PCLinuxOS are u using ? 

cuz me.. i installed ZenMini just less than a week ago.  The drive that I installed it on (actually a thumbdrive) works flawlessly and ANY machine (I installed it using a PC with NvidiaGTX260), booted it up on a PC with different motherboard / ATI HD34600. The only thing it complained about at initial boot is the video driver.. i just had to hit <enter> few times at the video repair prompt and I get in with no problem