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| Albert L Gerber 2007-08-08, 1:13 am |
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Of course, I'm new to Debian which I installed a few days ago. After
trying Red Hat a couple few years ago this is fine OS. My problem is
that I can not change the screen resolution above 640X480. The sound and
graphics are on board the M/B and I don't remember what the info on the
M/B is. Other wise I would look for graphic support for Linux on line at
the M/B's web site. I'm running WinXP on the C drive and Ubuntu on the
second H/D or drive D. In Windows I can run the resolution at 800X600
which works for me. I'm assuming that the resolution cause some of the
program windows to expand beyond the limits of the program screens.
Thanks, Li'l Al
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| Signals 2007-08-08, 1:13 am |
| Albert L Gerber wrote:
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> Of course, I'm new to Debian which I installed a few days ago. After
> trying Red Hat a couple few years ago this is fine OS. My problem is
> that I can not change the screen resolution above 640X480. The sound and
> graphics are on board the M/B and I don't remember what the info on the
> M/B is. Other wise I would look for graphic support for Linux on line at
> the M/B's web site. I'm running WinXP on the C drive and Ubuntu on the
> second H/D or drive D. In Windows I can run the resolution at 800X600
> which works for me. I'm assuming that the resolution cause some of the
> program windows to expand beyond the limits of the program screens.
>
> Thanks, Li'l Al
Run the command dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in a command prompt, it's
likely X will guess correctly at what your video hardware is.
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| s. keeling 2007-08-08, 7:14 pm |
| Albert L Gerber <albertgerber@juno.com>:
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> Of course, I'm new to Debian which I installed a few days ago. After
> trying Red Hat a couple few years ago this is fine OS. My problem is
> that I can not change the screen resolution above 640X480. The sound and
It may be they're already configured. In X Window, try "CTRL-ALT-+"
(meaning the "+" key on the keypad). That cycles through the
available modes. "-" goes backwards. If there are no other
resolutions configured, get to a console, "su -" to root, then
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".
> graphics are on board the M/B and I don't remember what the info on the
> M/B is. Other wise I would look for graphic support for Linux on line at
"lspci" will list all onboard devices. Add "-v" or "-vv" for more detail.
> the M/B's web site. I'm running WinXP on the C drive and Ubuntu on the
> second H/D or drive D. In Windows I can run the resolution at 800X600
> which works for me. I'm assuming that the resolution cause some of the
> program windows to expand beyond the limits of the program screens.
Also fiddle with "Bit Per Pixel" depth. This defines how many colors
it can display. The higher numbers use more video RAM.
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| sk8r-365 2007-08-08, 7:14 pm |
| Government satellites recorded s. keeling saying:
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> It may be they're already configured. In X Window, try "CTRL-ALT-+"
> (meaning the "+" key on the keypad). That cycles through the
> available modes. "-" goes backwards.
<snip>
That's a cool thing to know!
That's another _new_ thing I learned about Linux.
Gotta love Linux! Feel the power!!
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http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
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| AJackson 2007-08-23, 1:14 am |
| On Aug 9, 1:59 am, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
wrote:
> Government satellites recorded s. keeling saying:
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> <snip>
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> That's a cool thing to know!
> That's another _new_ thing I learned about Linux.
> Gotta love Linux! Feel the power!!
Hrm...
It's an X11 (or actually XFree86 and Xorg) server feature, which you
can turn on (like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
Has nothing to do with linux. You have same features on xBSD etc.
when running X11.
Like that X11 is a distibuted graphical systems since they started to
develop it back in the eighties. ;).
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| s. keeling 2007-08-23, 1:14 am |
| AJackson <anders.jackson@gmail.com>:
> On Aug 9, 1:59 am, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
> wrote:
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> Hrm...
> It's an X11 (or actually XFree86 and Xorg) server feature, which you
> can turn on (like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
Hrm ...
JFYI, that kills X Window. Don't do that if you don't want that.
> Has nothing to do with linux. You have same features on xBSD etc.
> when running X11. Like that X11 is a distibuted graphical systems
> since they started to develop it back in the eighties. ;).
ACK.
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| sk8r-365 2007-08-23, 1:14 am |
| Horton heard a Who named s. keeling saying:
> AJackson <anders.jackson@gmail.com>:
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> Hrm ...
>
> JFYI, that kills X Window. Don't do that if you don't want that.
It'll kill an active session but it also restarts X.
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http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
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| sk8r-365 2007-08-23, 1:14 am |
| Horton heard a Who named AJackson saying:
> On Aug 9, 1:59 am, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hrm...
> It's an X11 (or actually XFree86 and Xorg) server feature, which you
> can turn on (like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
> Has nothing to do with linux. You have same features on xBSD etc.
> when running X11.
> Like that X11 is a distibuted graphical systems since they started to
> develop it back in the eighties. ;).
>
Thanks for the info. I've only known of X via Linux. Hence, my view is limited.
But it's a great view from here! (poor Windows suckers).
--
sk8r-365
http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
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| John Hasler 2007-08-23, 1:15 pm |
| sk8r-365 writes:
> It'll kill an active session but it also restarts X.
No it doesn't. Your display manager restarts X.
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John Hasler
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| AJackson 2007-09-06, 1:14 pm |
| On Aug 23, 6:42 am, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
wrote:
> Horton heard a Who named AJackson saying:
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> Thanks for the info. I've only known of X via Linux. Hence, my view is limited.
> But it's a great view from here! (poor Windows suckers).
You CAN actually run X11 on a MS Windows box. It's just a program
that writes to your screen(s) and read from your input(s). And
commands to write and events from input can travel over the net.
This is why you can run graphic software from your server having it
displayed on you X11 server, even if you don't have a graphic card or
screen on your server.
You can even run a X11 server in your X11 server. THIS is a cool
feature. No, it is not a later hack.
(From memory) try
Xnest :1 -query localhost
(You need to install xnest X11-server first)
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace restarts your X11 server, and by doing that also
kills your session.
This feature can be turned off in X11 server configuration file, if
you have problems with that.
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| sk8r-365 2007-09-06, 7:15 pm |
| Horton heard a Who named AJackson saying:
> On Aug 23, 6:42 am, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
> wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> You CAN actually run X11 on a MS Windows box. It's just a program
> that writes to your screen(s) and read from your input(s). And
> commands to write and events from input can travel over the net.
> This is why you can run graphic software from your server having it
> displayed on you X11 server, even if you don't have a graphic card or
> screen on your server.
> You can even run a X11 server in your X11 server. THIS is a cool
> feature. No, it is not a later hack.
> (From memory) try
> Xnest :1 -query localhost
>
> (You need to install xnest X11-server first)
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace restarts your X11 server, and by doing that also
> kills your session.
> This feature can be turned off in X11 server configuration file, if
> you have problems with that.
>
I've used xnest on other occasions - it is cool using a windowed
login for one user while staying active on the "host" users' desktop.
Although, now that I'm on Debian, we (the family) appreciate the
"switch user" option available from our Gnome desktops.
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sk8r-365
The only way to make Windows "secure":
1) go to http://goodbye-microsoft.com
2) replace existing operating system.
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| AJackson 2007-09-22, 1:17 am |
| On Sep 6, 10:50 pm, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
wrote:
> Horton heard a Who named AJackson saying:
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> I've used xnest on other occasions - it is cool using a windowed
> login for one user while staying active on the "host" users' desktop.
> Although, now that I'm on Debian, we (the family) appreciate the
> "switch user" option available from our Gnome desktops.
Yes, you can run many Xservers on linux, one on each virtual console
and then switch between them (Ctrl-Alt-F7 Ctrl-Alt-F8 etc)
Then you have two totaly different X servers. Fist called localhost:
0.0 and second called localhost:1.0
And if you have two graphic cards, you can run two users on same
computer. Just plug in a set of USB keyboards and mouse and set gdm
(or whatever *dm you run) to control those two and start propper X11-
server on each card. Works great, if you do have enough memory. I
would guess you only need around 50% more memory to run one user
more. That is becouse you share lots of programming libraries between
the users and you share one OS 
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