Video driver for Diamond Stealth 32mb AGP card

[meherkp]

I installed kubuntu 6.06 and was only able to get 640x480 resolution... I tried to change the video adapter settings to reflect the video card I have (Diamond Stealth 32mb AGP card)... and now the problem is I can't even boot.

I am pretty new to linux.. & don't know how to fix this.

Please help me

MK

[askrieger]

Re: Video driver for Diamond Stealth 32mb AGP card

The first thing I would suggest is to boot in rescue mode (the second line in the grub menu). If you don't see the grub menu, press Esc to bring it up. You may have to be very fast; some idiot set the grub menu not to show and then set the timeout on the grub menu at 3 seconds, so hit Esc and then the down arrow as soon as your machine starts booting. Then, you can take your time pressing return.

Once you manage to get your system booted in rescue mode you will see a black and white full screen display saying "login:" enter your username, then enter your password when asked. Now, you can repair your graphical user interface. Type the following commands:

cd /etc/X11/ <-- this puts you in correct directory
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.old <-- This saves the old xorg.conf file just in case
sudo nano xorg.conf <-- this opens a console editor

because the nano editor does not use the xserver, you can't use your mouse, you must navigate with your arrow keys. Use the down arrow to get to the section that starts

Section "Device"
<tab>Identifier "the name of your video card"
<tab>Driver "the driver for your video card" <--- Change this line

change the Driver line to

<tab>Driver "vesa"

This should at least enable you to get the gui running because the vesa driver works with almost all the video cards made in the last 15 years. So save the file by typing "Ctl-O" and exit nano with Ctl-X. Now give the command "startx". Either the xserver will start or you'll get an interesting error message that the experts on this forum can decipher, but only if you copy the EXACT WORDING OF THE ERROR MESSAGE