upgrading a video card

[neondog]

My pal stopped by the other day and gave me an ATI Radeon 7000 card he had sitting around in hopes I would stick in in my RH 8 box ( He wants the screen-savers to look better..sic) Well after a couple of days staring at in on my desk I thought why not look into it. Going from a 16 Mb TNT2 PCI to an ATI 32 Mb AGP can't be that hard and Chromium should run better. My question is in what order should I do this?

1. Uninstall the 2 nvidia rpms
2. Revert the XF86Config back to the default settings
3. swap out the cards
4. Cross fingers and run XConfigurator

Suggestions, comments and flames are graded :)

[Timothy L. Miller]

I would revert X back to original settings before uninstalling the Nvidia RPM's. Other than that, sounds good to me.

[Lorithar]

I'm running a 64Mb radeon 7200 -- No problems, great thoughput and no specials ... I'm running the kernel native AGP driver, and the DRI from the regular 2.4.19 kernel .. .no really special settings required in XF86Config ... just the ati.o driver and away it went .. finds the card, gives me accellerated display ... and I can play Descent3 from Loki with my nice new Joystick ... GREAT framerates... unless the freedom2.4 logitech joystick and the radeon driver collide (they do that once in a while ...kills the USB ... I've got all that patched 6 ways from sunday to find out why.)

[neondog]

Well I swapped the cards out this weekend and had it back up and running with an hour. Biggest problem I had was with the stinking NVidia RPM's. First they are there, then they are not and then the reappear. After some fudging and rebuilding the rpm database all is went as planned.