Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution

2008-09-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/4 Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My Dell (an old insprion 8600) runs 1920x1200. A nice surprise on Ubuntu 7.04 and later was that it Just Worked. I didn't have to tweak the /etc/X11 configs at all! Configuring this screen is a pain in Debian, with no two installs working in quite

aptitude question

2008-09-04 Thread Dan
Hi :-) one questions on the table, of which I can not find the answer ... To install packages  I  generally (read always ;) ) use aptitude. I  know where it keeps the history of packages installations/removals ( /var/log/aptitude ) but I can not figure out if and where all the informational

Re: aptitude question

2008-09-04 Thread Paolo
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:25:31AM +, Dan wrote: informational messages that appear on screen during the actual installation of a package are recorded. I thought I could find them in dpkg log file ( /var/log/dpkg.log ) but at present I can not find any. not laptop-specific, though

Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution

2008-09-04 Thread Tony Godshall
Same with my old Sony Vaio PCG-8C3L aka PCG-GRX560. 1600x1200. That is, until the display started to go (these days is is crisp in text mode but goes nasty left-right flickery. Anyhow, yes, I've been able to get video out through the VGA connector at whatever resolution the monitor would

Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution

2008-09-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/4 Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But if you need the big screen, why the laptop? Surely you get a better bang for the buck with a traditional motherboard/monitor setup. Especially if you want a low-rez big screen. The desktop is rather difficult to carry to the university every