[Solved] Change of graphics card

[TruckerJohn]

Hi
I am running PCLinuxOS KDE versions - updated only this morning. (Dual boot with W XP)
The hardware is a Foxconn 760gxk8mc motherboard, amd athlon64 cpu, 2gb ram and until about an hour ago an ATI X1650 agp gfx card.  This card has failed - absolutely no output - tried in a spare m/c.
After some initial hiccups I have managed to boot using the onbord graphics and sorted XP.
When I boot to PCLinuxOS everything goes fine up to the splash screen and I get four of the five icons appear across the bottom then I get a black screen with a mouse pointer, which responds, but no taskbar or icons.

How do I now change the graphics to get a useable display?

Thanks
John

[nixer]

I would boot to a root console and enter this command (as root):
# XFdrake

This will allow you to reset the graphics driver.

To get to a console, select the safe boot option or add a "3" to the grub boot stanza.

There are probably other ways of doing this but this is how I did it when I changed graphic cards.

Good luck, and I hope this helps.

[TruckerJohn]

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply XFdrake works but I don't think PCLinuxOS likes my onboard graphics.  I am getting another graphics card tomorrow and at least I know how to get in and change the graphics.

John

[nixer]

Before I gave up on it, I would make sure that you had the correct driver installed from synaptic so that it could or would load the correct drivers.

Also, when you go into XFdrake, you can always load the vesa drivers which will enable you to use the install.  I would try this to make sure that it at least worked.  Then if it loads, do a synaptic search for your current onboard video card to make sure that the driver is installed.  It probably is already installed, but I would check.

[TruckerJohn]

Hi

I noticed I had only allocated 32mb shared ram for the onboard gfx which wont have helped.  However I have successfully installed a new agp card and got PCLinuxOS up and running again.

Thanks
John