[ale] Switching video drivers

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---- Steve Brown <braino420 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Odd, I thought Fedora had the failsafe X where it would load a generic
> xorg.conf if you were to lose the GUI. You could try moving the current
> xorg.conf somewhere else and see if it will auto-generate another one for
> you:
> mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
> Then you could try typing in: startx
> If that doesn't work, since you already have a good idea about what video
> driver you use, you could open up xorg.conf, go down to the "Device"
> section, and change "Driver" to point to the savage driver (I think it's
> simply called "savage").
> As root:
> cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Then type 'startx' to try it.
> If none of the above works, you'll have to ask one of the Fedora gurus on
> the list what the equivalent command of 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xofg' is
> :)
> 
> HTH,
> Steve Brown
Thanks for your reply, let you know if that works. When I boot up it goes to text mode and then at login when x is supposed to start it just keeps on flashing finally switching to tty1, leaving tty7 inop.