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Swapping video cards, suggestions, thoughts.....
I have a second PC which uses my 'seconds/spares' - I wanted to swap the video card and see what sort performance the others have. I've done a 'Debian style HD install' on this machine.
Right, I understand I can boot from the Knoppix CD and it will auto-configure the card, but how do I go about making a permanent change to a HD install?
I don't really have any good ideas where to start, other than noting what Knoppix auto-detects.....
I'll be busy reading this forum and Googling in the meantime, hoping for a tool that does this for me! - but any help appreciated.
Stu.....
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Boot your cd, and make sure your mouse, and video is working properly, then from a root console mount your hd partition read/write then:
Backup your existing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file on your hard drive which will be at: /mnt/hdXy/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(where hdXy corresponds to your hard drive device ie: hda1, hda2, hdb3 etc.)
I usually add the card module name to the end of the name ie: XF86Config-4-sis, XF86Config-4-nv, XF86Config-4-ati etc.
then copy the knoppix created file from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to /mnt/hdXy/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
HTH
~rock
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Many thanks for a quick reply!
I had a look through the /etc/XF86Config-4 file and it had (lots of) the following clue:-
"The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config"
- I might play around with this and see what I can break!
Cheers, Stuart.....
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