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                        The new video card, round three
                                        
The replacement [1] replacement [2] video card [3] finally arrived! Woot!

The good: It's the right card!

The bad: It was not going into graphics mode when I run X [4].

The ugly: It took a few hours, but I finally got it working. It seems that
when I tried the previous video card, the configuration was overwritten, and
it took some gentle persuasion with a large hammer to straighten it out.

So now it's time to send back the wrong card, and relax now that this
adventure is over.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/01/28.2
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/01/20.2
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/01/14.1
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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