How to reinstall video drivers?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 20:46 -0500, Richard wrote:
> On 04/25/2011 09:07 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > How did you change the driver?
> That was the only thing that was simple.  I used synaptic and looked for 
> ATI drivers.  Then I installed some using the search function in synaptic.
> >
> > Try: System|Administration|Additional Drivers
> > and see if perhaps: 1) you have/need additional drivers, and 2) if they
> > are enabled. Also, try: System|Preferences|Monitors&  make sure that the
> > refresh settings are correct.
> 
> The only drivers that show up in the Additional Drivers thing is the 
> broadcom drivers,  Absolutely no video drivers there!
> 
> The Monitors app shows a default but cant change a thing!
> >
> > Other than that you'll need to provide more info regarding what you did
> > and what video drivers you actually use.
> 
> But your response got me to looking again,  Started out with trying to 
> determine what the video card is.  Eventually I got the system test to 
> tell me it was ATI/Radeon as I had determined before.  So I went in and 
> deleted all the associated apps/modules.  That didnt change anything but 
> when I reinstalled the ATI/Radeon stuff and rebooted after making each 
> change I got my resolutions back.  And I thought I only needed to reboot 
> for kernel changes.


You can remove the redundant packages by looking in the history of
Synaptic.




> Bottom line, I thank you for getting me back to thinking about the 
> basics.   Guess I got spoiled using Suse's Yast for this sort of stuff. 
>   It really shouldnt be so hard.
> 
> Now I'm almost back to figuring out why Google Video Chat wont work, but 
> thats a whole nother thread.


Are you using Empathy for this?





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