Replacing Laptop Graphics Card W/nvidia

I was going to install the Nvidia drivers first, then take apart the laptop and Install the new graphics card. When I turn it on after it is installed, will the operating system set it up, or do I have to set it up? Thanks

It's hard to say (because I don't know). But it shouldn't be a problem. If it balks after putting in the new card you can reboot and at the Grub screen type the numeral 1 and press enter. That takes you to console login as root in runlevel 1. From there these many options are available to re-init X-Windows
try these things one at a time in the runlevel 1 console, until one works:

Enter sax2
that will recalibrate the X-Window system with input from you.
Then run startx

If that doesn't get you back redo it with
sax2 -a
that will recalibrate X-Windows system without input from you
Then run startx

If that doesn't get you back redo it with
sax2 -m 0=vesa (or or 0=800x600 or whatever, but start low)
that will recalibrate X-Windows system using your specified
Then run startx

If that doesn't get you back redo it with
sax2 -r
that will recalibrate X-Windows using a re-initialised hardware detection database
Then run startx

When you're in, you then reboot and relogin as yourself and goto Yast --> hardware --> graphics for the fine tuning.

It should also work by not installing the drivers first, but the card first. Nvidia should actually boot up OK that way. From there I would install the drivers. But you can do it installing the drivers first I suppose.

Swerdna

It's hard to say (because I don't know). But it shouldn't be a problem. If it balks after putting in the new card you can reboot and at the Grub screen type the numeral 1 and press enter. That takes you to console login as root. From there these many options are available to re-init X-Windows
try these things one at a time until one works:
sax2
that will recalibrate the X-Window system with input from you.
Then run startx

If that doesn't get you back redo it with
sax2 -a
that will recalibrate X-Windows system without input from you
Then run startx

If that doesn't get you back redo it with
sax2 -m 0=vesa (or or 0=800x600 or whatever, but start low)
that will recalibrate X-Windows system using your specified
Then run startx

If that doesn't get you back redo it with
sax2 -r
that will recalibrate X-Windows using a re-initialised hardware detection database
Then run startx

When you're in reboot and relogin as yourself and goto Yast --> hardware --> graphics for the fine tuning.

It should also work by not installing the drivers first, but the card first. Nvidia should actually boot up OK that way. From there I would install the drivers. But you can do it installing the drivers first I suppose.

Swerdna
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Thanks!...