Fedora won't use video card

[trumanzero]

I have an old Diamond Fire 1000 GL Pro video card that works fine with Mandrake and SuSE, but Fedora won't recognize it and it won't let me change it. It keeps my card set as a Texas Instruments 3Dlabs Permedia2. When I apply the changes to the display settings, I get a message telling me that I need to logout and restart the X Server for changes to take effect. Is this just a simple restart, or do I have to do something else?

 

[Chacalinc]

nope, just a simple X restart.. the restart is in order to let X server take (read the config file again) the new configuration.

 

[trumanzero]

Logging out doesn't work. It managed to save my monitor finally, but my video card still shows up as the generic card. Come to think of it.....nothing I change saves. Even little things like Kopete settings. I opened the /etc/x11/xorg.conf file that the video card settings are supposed to be saved to, and they aren't being saved at all. Dunno what to do.

 

[Chacalinc]

init 3

init 5

 

[trumanzero]

Where do I go to change which one I operate as?

 

[chriseubank]

...I change mine manually, I've found that setting the display settings within the GUI doesn't seem to always work.

Instead of logging out and in, you can kill the X process as well from a console screen, it'll just nuke your running processes and automatically switch back to your X screen.

C

 

[trumanzero]

Yeah, manually changing it was what I was gonna do here in a little while when I get home. I just wasn't sure if anything weird had to be put in.