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GDM won't start after video card switch

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#1

I was running a S3 PCI video card, but I swapped it out with a NVidia GeForce2 AGP video card. In my xorg.conf file, I changed the "Device" section to the following:

Section "Device" Identifier "NVidia GForce2" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "UseFBDev" "true" End Section

GDM still fails to start though. The Xorg.0.log file says:

(II) S3VIRGE driver (version 1.8.6) for S3VIRGE chipsets: ... (II) Primary device is: PCI:1:0:0 (EE) No Devices Detected.

Fatal server error: no screens found

Why does the Xorg.0.log file say it is still trying to load the S3VIRGE drivers for the card? Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

#2

I was running a S3 PCI video card, but I swapped it out with a NVidia GeForce2 AGP video card. In my xorg.conf file, I changed the "Device" section to the following:

GDM still fails to start though. The Xorg.0.log file says:

Why does the Xorg.0.log file say it is still trying to load the S3VIRGE drivers for the card? Can anyone point me in the right direction here? try running ``` sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

#3

I ran

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

But I still have the same problem. It doesn't look like it changed any lines in xorg.conf, and Xorg.0.log says the same thing.

#4

I ran

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
#5

Hehe, I guess you learn something new every day. I didn't know you had to reboot after making changes to the xorg.conf file. Everything seems to be working fine now, thank you for your help :)