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Re: question, new to list



Hello

Bob Schmidt (<grandviewcog@ispwest.com>) wrote:

> I'm new to the list, and to Debian. I have played around with other
> linux distro's before but not much with debian. Anyway, I have an
> AS4000 alpha server that I installed Debian Release 3.0r1 on. The
> installation went well, and the computer rebooted fine. I do seem to
> have a problem with my video card though. I know that I initially
> entered the wrong card. Is there a program that I can run (in text
> mode) that will allow me to change the video card. When the computer
> rebooted it did ask me if I wanted it to try and run the X
> confiurator. I said yes several times, btu each time the computer
> locked up after displaying a bunch or random colors.

Try

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

if you use XFree 4.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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