[Hampshire] Feisty - changing Graphics Card

Hi all

I've just changed graphics cards on my Feisty box and miracle of miracles
I've got it to work. It went from an onboard adapter to a GeForce 5200 FX.
Having physically installed the card and obviously connected my monitor to
the new card and not the onboard jobby, I was a bit disappointed to get a
text based xserver error message.

No disrespect to Ubuntu here but I had hoped as the install had been such a
breeze that it would "just work". Anyway back to the plot, a quick google
told me to issue the command

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

It took a few reboots before I got a terminal to type this into but (with my
telling it the nv chipset), it seems to have worked fine.

Was this the right answer? I'm always keen to see distributions improve
and I had expected Ubuntu to just handle the upgrade and perhaps ask for
drivers (as Window$ would for instance) but one command to fix it is fine by
me. Just wondering if there is a simpler solution that I missed.

Cheers
ROb