I run mint 13 64bit and I am intending to install a new motherboard, CPU, mem and video.
Do I need to do anything so that the system will boot as normal after the installation.
Thanks in advance.
If you’re using any proprietary graphics drivers I’d suggest you remove them first … and rename
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
if it exists.
What’s the output from:
sudo lshw -C display
and
ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf
?
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As requested.
userone@office2 ~ $ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for userone:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV44A [GeForce 6200]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:c0000000-dfffffff memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:feae0000-feafffff
userone@office2 ~ $
userone@office2 ~ $ ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ls: cannot access /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
userone@office2 ~ $
What’s the output from:
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
?
userone@office2 ~ $ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
ii nvidia-304 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-current 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Transitional package for nvidia-current
ii nvidia-settings 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Transitional package for nvidia-settings
ii nvidia-settings-304 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
userone@office2 ~ $
If you’re sure there’s no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia*
should get you back to the nouveau driver before moving the drive across.
Then you can install the driver for the new graphics card.
If the3 new card is covered by the nvidia 304 driver (and you have no xorg.conf) you can probably leave it installed.
Thanks for the heads up. It will be some weeks before I have all the components… Will let you know what happens.
Okey Dokey 
Have now installed the new Graphic card and system will not boot to the log in Mint 13 64bit.
It will boot on a previous version of Linux however the mouse pointer is strange.
bash: /etc/bash.bashrc: Interrupted system call
bash-4.2$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for userone:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV635 PRO [Radeon HD 3650 AGP]
vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 mingnt=8
resources: memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:feae0000-feaeffff memory:feac0000-feadffff
bash-4.2$
do you know how to add nomodeset to the kernel boot line ?
No editing the boot line sounds complicated.
I have managed to uninstall the ATI driver and the system booted OK.
I have been told that there is a much newer driver at the AMD driver site do you think it is worth trying it or should I leave well alone.
userone@office2 ~ $ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for userone:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV635 PRO [Radeon HD 3650 AGP]
vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=radeon latency=32 mingnt=8
resources: irq:16 memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:feae0000-feaeffff memory:feac0000-feadffff
userone@office2 ~ $
That depends on whether you’re happy with your graphics performance ?
The problem might be that it’s an AGP card rather than a PCIe card … I vaguely remember other people having problems with AGP and recent drivers (as in it needed a specific driver) … let me know if you want me to look into it further.
I think I will leave well alone at the moment.
I was not having problems with my old NVIDIA AGP card in Mint but it just did not have enough punch for my Win7 upgrade from XP.
NVIDIA stopped making AGP cards after mine so to upgrade the graphics card I have had to move to ATI but their support sucks.
I expect I will have to consider a computer rebuild in another 6 months.
Thanks for your help.
I’m about 80% sure that adding nomodeset to the kernel boot line would do the trick, it’s just a case of how awkward you consider recovering if it doesn’t work.
If you decide you’d like to give it a shot … give us a shout
I found the following info on the AMD Linux driver site.
The drivers above support English only.
The display driver requires POSIX shared memory to be enabled on the system.
Kernal Sources package is no longer required if Kernel Header package is installed.
32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work.