[newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Cheers, Rodolfo You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, but that had to be the 57th strangest. [footnote: he had a tidy mind] (Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Stephen Kuhn replied: You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. Thanks. My monitor is an Acer V771, and in Mandrake Control Centre it is set as 'Plug'n Play ()'. It can't be found in the list which is under the 'Vendor' item, and when I choose any model from that list the problems remains: the screen is never filled up by the image. The same happens when I select any choice of the 'Generic' item. There is the 'Custom' item left. But I don't know what the 'refresh rate' means, and there the user is alerted that changing those rates can run the risk of damaging the screen, so I don't know what to do. Any other hint? Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 11:52, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Cheers, Rodolfo You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, but that had to be the 57th strangest. [footnote: he had a tidy mind] (Moving Pictures) Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor which I use in my workshop when installing different o/s 's or doing fresh installs. I then move the pc into the room it will be used in and plug it back into its usual monitor, keyboard ect. I generally have to re ajust the monitor settings on the moniter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Stephen Kuhn wrote: You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. John Bowden wrote: Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor which I use in my workshop when installing different o/s 's or doing fresh installs. I then move the pc into the room it will be used in and plug it back into its usual monitor, keyboard ect. I generally have to re ajust the monitor settings on the moniter. Thanks!! Your suggestion was right! On the bottom of my monitor there are four buttons, with which I could fit perfectly the image in the screen. For two years and a half I've been thinking it was a fault of Linux! Thanks, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 20:26, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Stephen Kuhn wrote: You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. John Bowden wrote: Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor which I use in my workshop when installing different o/s 's or doing fresh installs. I then move the pc into the room it will be used in and plug it back into its usual monitor, keyboard ect. I generally have to re ajust the monitor settings on the moniter. Thanks!! Your suggestion was right! On the bottom of my monitor there are four buttons, with which I could fit perfectly the image in the screen. For two years and a half I've been thinking it was a fault of Linux! Thanks, Rodolfo Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when you boot into windoz though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
John Bowden wrote: Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when you boot into windoz though. John, this time you're wrong: with my pleasant surprise, this was not necessary (at least it seems so): now I can switch between windoz and linux with the screen perfectly set up in both OSs. Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
John Bowden wrote: Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when you boot into windoz though. John, this time you're wrong: with my pleasant surprise, this was not necessary (at least it seems so): now I can switch between windoz and linux with the screen perfectly set up in both OSs. Cheers, Rodolfo Depending on the monitor, and the settings used, the monitor may remember more then one set of setting for screen size, and position. This can be especialy true when you run two different resulations/color depth settings. It is nice when it works out that way. Monitors that only remember one set of settings can be a pain. You get things like the splash screen when booting being off-center, or the command line interface or command mode not looking right. There is an X utility for tweeking the screen size, and position, but I can not remember the name. Usefull for when the monitor tries to use the same setting for Windows and Linux, and Linux is not full screen. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Sunday 12 December 2004 00:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There is an X utility for tweeking the screen size, and position, but I can not remember the name. /snip xvidtune Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen lock and password not resolving
List, I tried posting a thread concerning this problem last week but w/o much help. I recently changed my user password (at a moment of minor paranoia about a misperceived system compromise). Well, this is where my problem begins. From gdm I can login, and my desktop appears. Now if I want to leave my box for awhile, I click on my little gnome footprint select the lock screen icon and the screensaver comes on and if I touch a key or move the mouse a security popup appears with my username and a password prompt. I enter my password, I receive an error message incorrect password. What to do? I don't know where to begin looking. Thanks, Terry Terry Golightly ... t_dot_golightly-at-verizon_dot_net ... Pgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB 11:13:25 up 17 days, 17:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.07 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen lock and password not resolving
Terence Golightly wrote: List, I tried posting a thread concerning this problem last week but w/o much help. I recently changed my user password (at a moment of minor paranoia about a misperceived system compromise). Well, this is where my problem begins. From gdm I can login, and my desktop appears. Now if I want to leave my box for awhile, I click on my little gnome footprint select the lock screen icon and the screensaver comes on and if I touch a key or move the mouse a security popup appears with my username and a password prompt. I enter my password, I receive an error message incorrect password. What to do? I don't know where to begin looking. Thanks, Terry This may be of little help but I once had a similar problem and it was something to do with pam. Been a while and I don't remember the details. Check your logs I think it was the authentication log. As root type draklog with out quotes. The log may give you a clue as to what is happening. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen is black
For some reason, I get a black screen on shutdown or console terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1...) now that I've installed Mandrake 10 OE. It's almost like it goes into sleep mode becuase the monitor's powerlight goes to amber. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-X. The video is nVidia GFX 5600 FX. Although my drivers have been updated to the latest (and less impressive) drivers, I had this problem long before the update. Any ideas? ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen is black
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 07:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: For some reason, I get a black screen on shutdown or console terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1...) now that I've installed Mandrake 10 OE. It's almost like it goes into sleep mode becuase the monitor's powerlight goes to amber. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-X. The video is nVidia GFX 5600 FX. Although my drivers have been updated to the latest (and less impressive) drivers, I had this problem long before the update. Any ideas? The symptoms weren't exactly the same, but my 13 yr olds Soyo MB did something like it - when the monitor kicked into standby after not being used for awhile nothing would bring it back. I turned everything DPMS (power management for the monitor) off in BIOS and made sure the refs to it in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 were commented out. That worked here, not sure if its your problem or not. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen is black
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 08:31 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2004 07:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: For some reason, I get a black screen on shutdown or console terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1...) now that I've installed Mandrake 10 OE. It's almost like it goes into sleep mode becuase the monitor's powerlight goes to amber. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-X. The video is nVidia GFX 5600 FX. Although my drivers have been updated to the latest (and less impressive) drivers, I had this problem long before the update. Any ideas? The symptoms weren't exactly the same, but my 13 yr olds Soyo MB did something like it - when the monitor kicked into standby after not being used for awhile nothing would bring it back. I turned everything DPMS (power management for the monitor) off in BIOS and made sure the refs to it in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 were commented out. That worked here, not sure if its your problem or not. Had a similar problem with mine. Following advice on the Nvidia forums, I moved the monitor connection from the analog VGA connector on the video card to the digital flat panel connector using the supplied adaptor. I have a Geforce4 Ti 4600. Others reported similar problems getting the nvidia card to auto detect the connected display. You can supposedly specify the connector in the xorg.conf file but I found it easier to just use the adaptor since Nvidia cards default to using the flat panel connector. That fixed the problem for me without disabling power management. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] screen scrolls (desktop bigger than screen)
hello, when i set my screen resolution to anything higher than 1024x768 in the MCC, then my desktop becomes bigger than the screen and when i move the mouse off the end of the screen, it scrolls the screen. how can i avoid this? i just want my entire desktop to fit on my screen at a high resolutuion. thanks for the help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:43, JoeHill wrote: Easiest of all is 'scrot'. It's not in Main or Contrib or PLF, but you can find an RPM here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ ...then just bind a key or create an icon with the command: scrot desktop.png (or whatever you want to call the file) You can use import too, which is installed by default. import anyname.png and click on the windows you want or grab the desired area. It also supports jpeg, eps and many other formats. Take a look at man import Adolfo Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Saturday 01 May 2004 00:02, Lexx wrote: Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me :o) How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into paint How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a paint equivalent? Thanks in advance -- Lexx Lexx, there are no dumb questions, only dumb answers. Maybe this is one : Assuming you use KDE, under Mujltimedia -- Graphics choose an application called Ksnapshot. You can make a complete screendump or just a window. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 08:02, Lexx wrote: Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me :o) How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into paint How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a paint equivalent? Thanks in advance -- Lexx You can fire up GIMP and click FILE = ACQUIRE = SCREENSHOT stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- You can't depend on me all your lives. You have to learn that there's a little Homer Simpson in all of us. -- Homer Simpson Homer Defined Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Friday 30 April 2004 06:02 pm, Lexx wrote: Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me :o) How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into paint How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a paint equivalent? Thanks in advance Try ksnapshot. It should be installed. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:25 -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 06:02 pm, Lexx wrote: How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into paint How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a paint equivalent? Try ksnapshot. It should be installed. ... and, if I'm not mistaken, if it's installed you need merely hit the prt scr button to invoke it. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 17:33:50 up 10:24, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.09 Its hard to be graceful getting off your high horse. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:02:14 +0100 Lexx disseminated the following: Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me :o) How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into paint How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a paint equivalent? Thanks in advance Easiest of all is 'scrot'. It's not in Main or Contrib or PLF, but you can find an RPM here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ ...then just bind a key or create an icon with the command: scrot desktop.png (or whatever you want to call the file) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power -- Benito Mussolini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen Grabbing
Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me :o) How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into paint How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a paint equivalent? Thanks in advance -- Lexx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen Resolution
I loaded 9.2 on my machine last night, dual boot off of a second hard drive. Works fine except the desktop has a "rim" around it. I can adjust the screen to fix that. But I also get kind of a wavy appearance to it. What would cause that? Thanks, Bill Bill Hatfieldwww.badhatproductions.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 07:05, William Hatfield wrote: I loaded 9.2 on my machine last night, dual boot off of a second hard drive. Works fine except the desktop has a rim around it. I can adjust the screen to fix that. But I also get kind of a wavy appearance to it. What would cause that? Thanks, Bill Drivers. Do you have the correct video driver? Correct screen resolution for your monitor and graphics card? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- An antique that seems too good to be true, probably is. -- Kathy Lee's Dictum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution
Not sure, will have to check tonight. I downloaded the Starter Guide today. I will start digging. I have an old Gateway monitor I scavanged. I will make sure the video drivers are up to date. That should keep me busy for the weekend.Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 07:05, William Hatfield wrote: I loaded 9.2 on my machine last night, dual boot off of a second hard drive. Works fine except the desktop has a "rim" around it. I can adjust the screen to fix that. But I also get kind of a wavy appearance to it. What would cause that? Thanks, BillDrivers.Do you have the correct video driver? Correct screen resolution for yourmonitor and graphics card?stephen kuhn - owner==illawarra computer servicesa kuhn media australia companyhttp://kma.0catch.com--* This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer *We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents--An antique that seems too good to be true, probably is. -- Kathy Lee'sDictumWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.comBill Hatfieldwww.badhatproductions.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:05:00 -0800 (PST) William Hatfield disseminated the following: I loaded 9.2 on my machine last night, dual boot off of a second hard drive. Works fine except the desktop has a rim around it. I can adjust the screen to fix that. But I also get kind of a wavy appearance to it. What would cause that? Not sure if this is the same thing, but if you mean the screen image is 'warped' or has curves at the edges, it's the 'pincushion' settings on your monitor. I had this when I first attached my 19 flat CRT, took me awhile to get it right. If you mean the image is actually *moving* in a 'wavy' manner, then yeah, Stephen's points are more likely valid, especially with the correct settings for refresh rate, which can be configured, IIRC, in the KDE control center (if you happen to be using that bit of bloat) or in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Consult your monitor's docs for proper refresh rate values. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Refresh Rate
I had the same problem with my Intel 82855 chip. Check out this link from Intel http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/sb/cs-006059-prd955.htm Click on linux drivers and download and install the .rpm file. The follow the X -configure instructions in the Readme. This should get your desktop back within your screen, but I am still working on figuring out how to get the resolution right. The desktop and program icons and text still look huge to me. Let me know if you figure out something for that. -john smith Beavers, Randy W. wrote: All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen Resolution Refresh Rate
All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Refresh Rate
I had the same problem with my Intel 82855 chip. Check out this link from Intel http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/sb/cs-006059-prd955.htm Click on linux drivers and download and install the .rpm file. The follow the X -configure instructions in the Readme. This should get your desktop back within your screen, but I am still working on figuring out how to get the resolution right. The desktop and program icons and text still look huge to me. Let me know if you figure out something for that. -john smith Beavers, Randy W. wrote: All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen shots (printscreen) Utility
All, I am looking for a utility to do screen captures to the clipboard by using the printScrn key. I would like to be able to paste the screenshots directly to the clipboard so I can immediately paste them into an email for example. It would be great if it had the flexability to only do the active window and/or select only the part of the screen you wanted. Found Ksnapshot but it does not go to the clipboard so it would require me to save then import. I want to paste some screenshots into the twiki I created. Any ideas??? Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen shots (printscreen) Utility
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:35:14 -0500 Steve Kaufman disseminated the following: Any ideas??? Scrot is great, it's a command line tool, but of course you could bind the appropriate command to an icon or key combo, depending on your desktop/WM. Homepage here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 14:52:07 up 3 days, 5:23, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. -- George Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen saver disappears
Hi all, Running MDK 9.1 and KDE here. I downloaded a screen saver (The Matrix - very nice), the instructions said to copy the file KMatrix.desktop to /usr/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers. Also copy the file kmatrix.kss to /usr/bin. It all works fine. When I look at the sceensavers available for using its listed there as expected. The problem is whenever I install software whether from doing an Update or from downloading new stuff the KMatrix.desktop file dissappears and the saver no longer shows up in the list. I can solve this by recopying the file there again but why does it disappear? Scott Why oh why. didn't I take the BLUE pill? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Saver
On Friday 24 Jan 2003 4:30 pm, Gil Katz wrote: Hi Where do i find Screen Savers for Linux and where do i find desktop thems Gil Fair well and thanks for all the fish If you are running KDE then www.kde-look.org is the place for themes/wallpaper You will also find mandrake RPMS for several nice icon sets/themes/wallpapers at Texstars download site ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms In particular look out for crystal-icons -really nice icon set from Connectiva - will be default for KDE3.1 freecurve-artwork - The BlueCurve theme RedHat fans like. Geramik - A really popular theme kde3-kspashml - Animated log on spash keramik - I think that is geramik for KDE mosfets-liquid - my favourite KDE theme wallpaper - A collection of nice wallpapers xmas-wallpaper - A bit out of season Themes, icon sets, and wallpapers are all selected in KDE Control Centre Some themes like mosfet have to be configured in several different places. As for screensavers. The default KDE screensavers are not especially good. But if you do not use kde, or take the trouble to disable the KDE screensaver you can use xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl which are RPMs on your Mandrake CDs xscreensaver-demo in a terminal will show you the screensavers available, and the command xscreensaver -nosplash when you start your session will enable the screensavers. There are also some really nice new OpenGL screensavers for xscreensaver available here http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2540lang=en (I think the link is broken on that one) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Saver
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 03:30, Gil Katz wrote: Hi Where do i find Screen Savers for Linux and where do i find desktop thems Gil Screensavers for XLOCK or for XSCREENSAVER? There are two different screensaver servers... Themes for - uh, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment or what? http://themes.freshmeat.net -- Sat, 25 Jan 2003 08:50:00 +1100 8:50am up 8 days, 18:33, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- What was it they said about gods? They wouldn't exist if there weren't people to believe in them? And that applied to everything. Reality was what went on inside people's heads. (Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen Resolution and Monitor (in KDE)
Probably something very easy: How (in KDE) the devil do I change my screen resolution and monitor type? Thanks, Paul __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution and Monitor (in KDE)
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 13:42, Paul Dimitriu wrote: Probably something very easy: How (in KDE) the devil do I change my screen resolution and monitor type? Thanks, Paul You can do this through the MCC - in KDE, you really can't. (MCC = Mandrake Control Center) -- Fri Dec 20 13:45:01 EST 2002 1:45pm up 15 min, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.25, 0.20 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution and Monitor (in KDE)
On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:42 pm, Paul Dimitriu wrote: Probably something very easy: How (in KDE) the devil do I change my screen resolution and monitor type? Thanks, Paul In Mandrake, you do it in the Mandrake Control Center under monitor or resolution. David -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) ---( )--- 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Seg 09 Dez 2002 13:18, Martin L. Johansen wrote: Yep! It also happens with me! So far only with mdk8.2 machine! The other one with mdk9.0 hasn't showed that up! According to a list member, who advised me on that (Tod? maybe?) It's because I am always flipping from graphical mode to text to ctrl+alt+f1 and back with f7! That happens only after some flipping. I got used to it! ;-) rgs, Ricardo On Sunday 08 December 2002 17:08, Jerry wrote: Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Just what I thought. Hmm, I wouldn't know then. I always turn off my monitors when I don't use'em, so I cannot say if it's the same by me. The reason I thought it would be so, is that mine's disabled too by default, so I guessed yours was too, but wanted you to check the option. Anyone else? -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On December 8, 2002 03:06 pm, Jerry wrote: snip,snip,snip I fixed it! I had to remove/reinstall the apm packages to do it, but when I did, I found the settings for Powercontrol. They must not have installed correctly the first time or something. Worked on both machines. No more flashing D! :-) Thanks again! Cool. I'm glad you got it figured out Jerry. It's the little things that make all the difference. Speaking of little things; I have to go try and figure out what my buddy did to his machine when he tried to install the latest NVidia sources. I swear that man (and the rest of his family) could break the Lord's Prayer without even trying. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? -- Garrison Keillor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] screen oddity?
Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. thx, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:45:35 +0100 Martin L. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Thx Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 17:08, Jerry wrote: Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Just what I thought. Hmm, I wouldn't know then. I always turn off my monitors when I don't use'em, so I cannot say if it's the same by me. The reason I thought it would be so, is that mine's disabled too by default, so I guessed yours was too, but wanted you to check the option. Anyone else? -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:45:35 +0100 Martin L. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Thx Jerry. MCC-System-Services-apmd is running as default, can be changed to not be running. apmd means automatic power management daemon, I think, The default position on install is running, see whether you can have it not running, I think this is supposed to stop black screen after,the default, and not adjustable, 20 minutes. Only whenever I have ever tried it, it didn't work, but I believe it should, it's there amoungst other things to give your screen a rest, but also for laptop computers batteries to last longer. On the whole though it does no harm leaving it in place. It doesn't interfere with anything running, like downloads etc, so why not leave it be. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On December 9, 2002 10:52 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 18:39, Charlie wrote: But that isn't what you posted is it? You said MCC and Mandrake Control Center and the correct place to look is the _KDE Control Center_. They _are not the same animal at all_. My mistake. But the -- Powercontrol -- Energy where correct, and I think he got the hint alright :-) I had them both open and looked at the title on the wrong window :-) I thought I was the only one to do that kind of thing. :-) No harm, no foul. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Q: Why should you always serve a Southern Carolina football man soup in a plate? A: 'Cause if you give him a bowl, he'll throw it away. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:24:54 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 9, 2002 10:52 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 18:39, Charlie wrote: But that isn't what you posted is it? You said MCC and Mandrake Control Center and the correct place to look is the _KDE Control Center_. They _are not the same animal at all_. My mistake. But the -- Powercontrol -- Energy where correct, and I think he got the hint alright :-) I had them both open and looked at the title on the wrong window :-) I thought I was the only one to do that kind of thing. :-) No harm, no foul. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Q:Why should you always serve a Southern Carolina football man soup in a plate? A:'Cause if you give him a bowl, he'll throw it away. I fixed it! I had to remove/reinstall the apm packages to do it, but when I did, I found the settings for Powercontrol. They must not have installed correctly the first time or something. Worked on both machines. No more flashing D! :-) Thanks again! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Monday 09 December 2002 20:24, Charlie wrote: I had them both open and looked at the title on the wrong window :-) I thought I was the only one to do that kind of thing. :-) :-) -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen resolution
Dear Richard, I have tried both but the result is still the same 640x480 screen resolution. I have solved this problem by reinstalling Mandrake 9.0 and choose 1024x768 screen resolution. Thank you anyway, Ongkie From: BCSoft@TowerTraining [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Screen resolution Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:50:49 -0600 Are you looking to do this in a GUI or from the console? R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Ongkie Singgih Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Screen resolution Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen resolution
On Sunday 10 Nov 2002 4:04 am, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:42:46 + Ongkie Singgih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie If you want to change it in an easy GUI way, go to the configuration menu and run the Mandrake Control Center (it's also on the menu bar if your running KDE). Once it loads, select the hardware icon and then select the resolution icon. Make your changes and you're done. Joeb and if you only want to change resolution temporarily, just hit Ctl+Alt+ (numeric keypad +) Or Ctl+Alt+ (numeric keypad -) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen resolution
Are you looking to do this in a GUI or from the console? R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Ongkie Singgih Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Screen resolution Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen resolution
Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen resolution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie You can run XF86Config from a console login, or you can manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config.4 file (make a backup). 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! If you can read this, you're in range. ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen resolution
On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:42:46 + Ongkie Singgih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie If you want to change it in an easy GUI way, go to the configuration menu and run the Mandrake Control Center (it's also on the menu bar if your running KDE). Once it loads, select the hardware icon and then select the resolution icon. Make your changes and you're done. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] screen/menu resolution problem
I'm using a A-B switch box between two computers. One is dedicated to WIN2000, the other is dedicated to Mandrake 8.2. The box allows me to utalize the same monitor, keyboard and mouse. Even though the monitor resolution is set the same for both boxes, some of the menue boxes run off the screen when using Mandrake. The situation is so bad that even with the title bars removed the icons for minimize, maximize,close on the top of the screen cannot be seen. The same goes for the bottom where the boxes for, o.k. or cancel are normallyfound. The sides are rendered the same so that the resize or move cannot be accessed. Any suggestions how I can solve this? I don't want to change my resolution from 600 to 800. Six hundred is what I use in Windows, anything smaller I find hard to see. Mostly I'm using KDE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Capture?
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 7:20 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 12:42, Roger wrote: In 8.2 I had a program that was part of the default install, that I used on a fairly regular basis to make screenshots. I think it was called Screen Capture? Maybe it was just called screenshot in the menu. Does anyone know what it's name is, and what the package I need to install is? Could you be thinking of KSnapshot? Yep, thats the one. I was thrown by the change in name in the BlackBox menu. Thanks, Bryan. Although the menu item in 8.2 was Screen Capture, the app was KSnapshot, so if it's been changed to that on the menu it perhaps is a step in the right direction. I know there is a balancing act between saying which app you are about to run and giving an idea as to what it does, but where the purpose is clear in the name I would prefer to stick to it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen goes black at login
I just installed 8.2 on my slot-loading iMac. The install went very smoothly but now on startup, after it goes through all the loading and reaches the login prompt, the screen immediately goes black and I've not figured out how to get past that. Any ideas? Luis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] screen savers or suspend
I thing the problem maybe my old outdated monitor a viewsonic 4e,But I,m running a chaitech motherboard,3dfx voodoo 3,128 MB sdram and suspend leaves a rolling screen,screensavers work most the time but cause lockup,s from time to time .I,m running the beta 9.0 2 but no not to report a bug because it did the same thing with 8.2..Is there a easy way to get around this this for the time being? I don,t want to replace the monitor right now.I,m remodeling and shortly want to use a KVM switching with the other system. Thank,s JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] screen resolution
Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] screen resolution
Run XFdrake -Original Message- From: Joe Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] screen resolution Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
try Xconfigurator at the shell prompt and this will take you through. good luck. tks/Dex Patel RCN Joe Harkins joeharkins@gtcinterTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] net.comcc: (bcc: Dex Patel/RCN) Sent by:Subject: [newbie] screen resolution newbie-owner@linux-m andrake.com 07/16/02 12:01 PM Please respond to newbie Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 5:01 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? There sure is... First of all if you are in KDE try pressing CTl+Alt+keypad plus (or minus) This will rotate you through all the resolutions defined for your monitor. Next Open Mandrake Control Centre HardwareDisplay and you can set your default resolution. Expert mode alllows you to set your video card and monitor type. Note : If you have edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the Nvidia drivers then this procedure will erase your edits and you will have to do it again. (If you do not know what I am on about then dont worry about it.) HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
Joe Harkins wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Go to Mandrake control centre - hardware - Xdisplay and alter. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:01:59 -0400, Joe Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Yep, there is. You can find it in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen problem I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2
I wrote a while back that I had my machine working ok with mandrake 8.1 but now, with LM 8.2 I get a crashed screen if I do not add an Option noaccel in XF86config-4 Even with that option in the screen is slow and has waves as I move windows around etc. Has anyone got this combination to work? I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2 if so could i please see your XF86config-4 and any other relevant info. I have tried several reinstalls configurations with no luck. Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen problem I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2
On Sunday 23 June 2002 17:03, Walter Logeman wrote: I wrote a while back that I had my machine working ok with mandrake 8.1 but now, with LM 8.2 I get a crashed screen if I do not add an Option noaccel in XF86config-4 Even with that option in the screen is slow and has waves as I move windows around etc. Has anyone got this combination to work? I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2 if so could i please see your XF86config-4 and any other relevant info. I have tried several reinstalls configurations with no luck. Walter I have an ATI RAdeon. With mandrake 8.1 it worked fine but with Mandrake 8.2 i have some 3d problems: it does not work anymore with certain programs like openuniverse, or tuxracer for instance. These programs work fine with Redhat 7.3 [which has XFree-4.2 too]. In the XFree config i changed from radeon to ati for the driver. glxgears shows a better range [and the wheels turn quickly without any halt] and glxinfo does not show the word slow anymore. however openuniverse still does not work [segfault] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen problem I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2
Hi, I had my machine working ok with mandrake 8.1 but now, with LM 8.2 I get a crashed screen if I do not add an Option noaccel in XF86config-4 Even with that option in the screen is slow and has waves as I move windows around etc. The problem is particularly noticeable with scrolling in Mozilla, but it happens everywhere. Has anyone got this combination to work? I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2 if so could i please see your XF86config-4 I have spent a lot of time trying to learn how to fix my problem As i am a newbie - could someone give me a few pointers on the following: ** As it worked on Mandrake 8.1 (it worked both before and after I upgraded XFree86 to 4.2) it should all work on 8.2 - or is there something in the kernel or modules that might make this not so? ** I can't get harddrake to work - so is there some other way to really see what is happening to the way the ATI video card is installed? Could that be it? ** As i have a screen working with noaccel is it the lack of hardware acceleration that is causing the strange and slow screen? Why would it work without the noaccel option in 8.1. What is the difference with acceleration? ** There are a couple of new lines in my XFConfig-4 Section Module which were not in my old one Loadv4l Loadglx Loaddri Without all three I think the problem is a little worse - I am still experimenting with various combinations. I presume the modules need to be installed for them to work - does it matter if they are not? How can i check all this? ** Are there specific help files or websites i should be exploring? Thanks. PS Please send a copy of any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my usual address is bouncing mail due to an ISP problem, this should be ok in 24hrs. The archives not instantly updated. -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution
Charles Muller wrote: I had originally set up Mandrake 8.1 with the same high resolution that I had been running on Windows (1289 x 1024), but all the fonts are just too small. I tried to find a way to lower the settings in my new Ximian Desktop, but couldn't find anything. I don't remember now if there was a way to make the change in KDE either. Does anyone have experience with this? The simplest thing that works (if your machine is set up with a variety of modelines in the appropriate file) is to press ctrlalt- (minus) to decrease the screen resolution, or + to increase it. (While in X) Don't remember the name of the file, but if this doesn't work then you have to fool around with the X configuration files. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen settings
Hello, First time trying Mandrake, previously I have been using Slackware (since about 1997 I think...). Anyhow, the Xconfiguration seems to have changed slightly - I cannot seem to manually set the H V synch of my screen, all I can do is change the resolution. I have tried using both Xconfigurator and the GUI tools from the desktop. I am using a magazine coverdisk (free distribution) v8.0 (Traktopel) distribution of Mandrake. Andrew
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 2:44 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was saying that all resolutions are supported except for 24bpp. I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as 16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp. Heh heh, I feel pretty stupid. My computer (running the riva tnt2) runs at 32bpp just fine. I started at 8 and worked my way up. When 24 didn't work I just assumed 32 wouldn't either. Thanks for pointing that out. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:40, you wrote: on 9/13/01 2:44 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was saying that all resolutions are supported except for 24bpp. I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as 16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp. Heh heh, I feel pretty stupid. My computer (running the riva tnt2) runs at 32bpp just fine. I started at 8 and worked my way up. When 24 didn't work I just assumed 32 wouldn't either. Thanks for pointing that out. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com You shouldn't feel stupid about what happened. You assumed that if a particular setting didn't work, none higher would which seems quite logical. Hardware is still (at least for some/most of us), the hardest part of Linux. I have been using Mandrake since 7.0 and the hardware supported has greatly improved. Mandrake 8 detected my zip drive, printer, graphics and sound cards without a hitch. I've installed several versions of 5 different distros and this is the first time that all of my hardware was detected. A lot of my friends run RedHat or FreeBSD and I hear over and over that Mandrake is just a glorified RedHat distro. Maybe at one time it was, but it's not anymore. Mandrake goes way beyond RedHat for desktop use. I haven't use Mandrake as a web server other than development use so I won't say for cetain that it is better than any other distro for that type of use but for the desktop, it kicks some serious butt. Now if only we could get that nifty apt-get install feature that Debian has! Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
Title: Screen Resolution Problem Hi I'm running LM 7.2 (usually with KDE). I've tried using DrakConf - Change Screen Resolution with no success. My hardware is listed in the dropdowns for both graphics card and monitor so I select them both Cirrus Login GD544x and Gateway 1572FS. I choose a resolution of 1024 x 768. Doing a Show Information displays the correct hardware AND resolution. Doing a Test again shows 800 x 600 instead of the configured 1024 x 768. It simply refuses to change to the required resolution. Any ideas? Thanks Mark
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
Hi I'm running LM 7.2 (usually with KDE). I've tried using DrakConf - Change Screen Resolution with no success. My hardware is listed in the dropdowns for both graphics card and monitor so I select them both Cirrus Login GD544x and Gateway 1572FS. I choose a resolution of 1024 x 768. Doing a Show Information displays the correct hardware AND resolution. Doing a Test again shows 800 x 600 instead of the configured 1024 x 768. Do you run 32bit colors? Try 16bit colors then. Keep the settings on the conservative end, linux drivers usually do not push the hardware to the extreme limits, contrary to that other software Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
Title: RE: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem Thanks Paul - I'm now living the Linux experience @ 1024 x 768 in glorious 8! bit technicolour ;-( Do you run 32bit colors? Try 16bit colors then. Keep the settings on the conservative end, linux drivers usually do not push the hardware to the extreme limits, contrary to that other software Paul
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100 Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor experience. Can't recall everything. If you are not on a notebook, perhaps a different vidcard would help. I use a Geforce II Nvidia something and that works well on 16 bit 1024x768. But I cannot rule over your money, of course. Paul Thanks Paul - I'm now living the Linux experience @ 1024 x 768 in glorious 8! bit technicolour ;-( Do you run 32bit colors? Try 16bit colors then. Keep the settings on the conservative end, linux drivers usually do not push the hardware to the extreme limits, contrary to that other software -- I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
On Thursday 13 September 2001 12:06, you wrote: on 9/13/01 5:48 PM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100 Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor experience. Can't recall everything. If you are not on a notebook, perhaps a different vidcard would help. I use a Geforce II Nvidia something and that works well on 16 bit 1024x768. But I cannot rule over your money, of course. What about 24 or 32? Whenever screen res comes up in linux groups--from what I can see--16 bit seems to be the norm. I'd really like to get at least 24 bit color on my machine, but I can't get beyond 16. Is this a video card thing or something about linux itself that forces this restriction? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com I have three machines running Mandrake. Two are pc's and one is an iMac. All three run 32 bit at high resolutions. The iMac is at 1024x768 and the other two have 19 monitors so I run them at 1280. I have had problems in the past with various hardware setups and for those just starting out with Linux, it really helps to have common hardware configurations. I know Linux will run on almost anything, and if you know what your doing and have several hours to kill, most graphic cards will run fine, but for the rest of us, having common setups means less frustration. I had a cheap card that I bought at OfficeMax some time back that I recently tried to use with Mandrake and had a lot of problems. I was able to get it to work but it only supported 800x600 at 256 colors which wasn't very pleasant to look at. I bought a VooDoo 3 from a friend, booted Mandrake, it detected the new card on boot and made the process of installing a new card very easy. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 12:24 PM, Gary Traffanstedt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three machines running Mandrake. Two are pc's and one is an iMac. All three run 32 bit at high resolutions. The iMac is at 1024x768 and the other two have 19 monitors so I run them at 1280. I have had problems in the past with various hardware setups and for those just starting out with Linux, it really helps to have common hardware configurations. I have a Riva TNT2 with 16MB of RAM. Mandrake recognized the card fine during install, but when setting the resolution it says 24bpp is not supported for this card. Also if I try to set my res to 1280x?? it will instead keep it at 1024x768 and give me a 1280x?? virtual desktop. It's one of those things I keep meaning to get around to but haven't, since 16bpp isn't at all bad for general computer use. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for me that'd be great. But I need to look into this more myself. I was more making a comment on the seeming prevalence of 16bpp displays in Linux rather than asking a question. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
In reply to Matt's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:06:57 -0500 16 bit 1024x768. But I cannot rule over your money, of course. What about 24 or 32? Whenever screen res comes up in linux groups--from what I can see--16 bit seems to be the norm. I'd really like to get at least 24 bit color on my machine, but I can't get beyond 16. Is this a video card thing or something about linux itself that forces this restriction? It is mainly a driver thing. And some experience. Lots of applications (Netscape is famous for this) do not like 24bit colors. If your hardware / driver combo support 32bit and you see the difference between 16 and 32 bit, then go for 32 bit. My eyesight is color deficient so I do not need more than 16 bit. That's why I slip into that. Paul -- I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
I have a Riva TNT2 with 16MB of RAM. Mandrake recognized the card fine during install, but when setting the resolution it says 24bpp is not supported for this card. Also if I try to set my res to 1280x?? it will instead keep it at 1024x768 and give me a 1280x?? virtual desktop. It's one of those things I keep meaning to get around to but haven't, since 16bpp isn't at all bad for general computer use. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for me that'd be great. But I need to look into this more myself. I was more making a comment on the seeming prevalence of 16bpp displays in Linux rather than asking a question. Matt I just found this not sure if it will help but might be worth a try. Having the latest drivers usually helps. http://www.nvidia.com/us/nn/pg000588.htm Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Greer Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem on 9/13/01 12:24 PM, Gary Traffanstedt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three machines running Mandrake. Two are pc's and one is an iMac. All three run 32 bit at high resolutions. The iMac is at 1024x768 and the other two have 19 monitors so I run them at 1280. I have had problems in the past with various hardware setups and for those just starting out with Linux, it really helps to have common hardware configurations. I have a Riva TNT2 with 16MB of RAM. Mandrake recognized the card fine during install, but when setting the resolution it says 24bpp is not supported for this card. Also if I try to set my res to 1280x?? it will instead keep it at 1024x768 and give me a 1280x?? virtual desktop. It's one of those things I keep meaning to get around to but haven't, since 16bpp isn't at all bad for general computer use. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for me that'd be great. But I need to look into this more myself. I was more making a comment on the seeming prevalence of 16bpp displays in Linux rather than asking a question. Matt I have had/have 2 different Riva 16MB cards. These cards have never supported 24bpp. This is by design, not because of the OS being used. I do not recall any specifics regrading the resolution I choose to use. What you should look at is the Refresh and properties given to your monitor as it is detected in linux. There are generic entries which if used will not allow a resolution greater then 1024x768. You can change to a higher value in the monitor selection but be sure that your monitor is actually capable of handling it. 1 other note as to bpp is that if you choose to use 3D hardware acceleration the the bpp by default is set to 16bpp because most 3D apps,especially games will only run at that bpp setting. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tommorows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:29:07 +0100 Mark Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm running LM 7.2 (usually with KDE). I've tried using DrakConf - Change Screen Resolution with no success. My hardware is listed in the dropdowns for both graphics card and monitor so I select them both Cirrus Login GD544x and Gateway 1572FS. I choose a resolution of 1024 x 768. Doing a Show Information displays the correct hardware AND resolution. Doing a Test again shows 800 x 600 instead of the configured 1024 x 768. It simply refuses to change to the required resolution. Mark, I had the same set of problems as you a few weeks ago, and didn't win!! Best I got was 800x600x16 and very poor definition as that. These cards seem to run well in Windows but the Linus drivers seem to be rather short. I swapped out to another card and solved the problem. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 1:40 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had/have 2 different Riva 16MB cards. These cards have never supported 24bpp. This is by design, not because of the OS being used. My card supports 24bpp fine in Windows, although it may be 32bpp. Are you saying that 24bpp in particular is not supported or they won't go beyond 16bpp? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Greer Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem on 9/13/01 1:40 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had/have 2 different Riva 16MB cards. These cards have never supported 24bpp. This is by design, not because of the OS being used. My card supports 24bpp fine in Windows, although it may be 32bpp. Are you saying that 24bpp in particular is not supported or they won't go beyond 16bpp? Matt I was saying that all resolutions are supported except for 24bpp. I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as 16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp. We may have a labeling problem here. Nvidia made a specific line using the Riva 128 chipset usually marketed as Riva TNT it is not a TNT2 card. The only 16mb TNT2 card that I am aware of by Nvidia is the Vanta line although other makers such as Creative do offer a line of Riva TNT2 cards including 1 listed as Riva TNT2 without the Vanta designation, listing under the specs only that it uses the TNT2 engine, no mention of chipset. So after all of that now I am confused. Glad I switched to ATI. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 5:48 PM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100 Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor experience. Can't recall everything. If you are not on a notebook, perhaps a different vidcard would help. I use a Geforce II Nvidia something and that works well on 16 bit 1024x768. But I cannot rule over your money, of course. What about 24 or 32? Whenever screen res comes up in linux groups--from what I can see--16 bit seems to be the norm. I'd really like to get at least 24 bit color on my machine, but I can't get beyond 16. Is this a video card thing or something about linux itself that forces this restriction? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
Tomas Krivda wrote: Hi, where and how can I change my screen resolution and refresh rate? Tomas in drake config
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
Miark, Just for your info, this and the previous message do not appear to be HTML. Maybe it just looks like it on your mail client? Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Miark wrote: Damn it. $*%^$#*#$ Okay. No more HTML--I promise :-)
[newbie] Screen resolution - Update
The resolution is correct when a photo is opened in the file manager or The Gimp and other viewers. It is not correct when used as background. Also, there is a line running perpendicular right in the middle of the screen. When I move a dialog box, this line leaves tracks. I accepted the defaults given at installation, then had to change monitors even though the default was correct. The video card was ok. I changed settings in DrakConf, Screen Resolution, many times. I've used every setting in xf86config that is even close to my set up. I'm sure xf86conifig configures /etc/X11/XF86Config. Which file does 'DrakConf, Screen Resolution,' configure? Any ideas welcome.
[newbie] screen resolution
Installed MDK 7.2 -- love it. Can't get screen resolution right. Tried to change with, DrakConf, Screen Resolution, with no luck. Also, xf86config, no luck. Which file is 'startkde' located in? I should be able to do: startkde -- -bpp -16. Any help appreciated. cedric
[newbie] Screen Capture of processes loading at boot up
I have noticed people posting there startup file??? Where is this file's location?? I have a few modules failing, and I would like to get some help on them. Or is it a screen capture somehow?? Thanks for your help. Alan
RE: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge!!!!! Help!!
Salut, I finally tracked down the solution to this annoyance with oversized fonts. As per my previous email, this is caused by attempting to change the KDE panel clock to am/pm format through the right-click-option "Adjust Date Time". Solution: EDIT THIS FILE: /home/yourname/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals GO FIND: [Locale] AND CHANGE THE CHARSET LINE TO: Charset=unknown It is this line that the process "Adjust Date Time" changes resulting in assigning KDE with an unsupported ISO set. I hope you made some sense of my above jibberish. Seve Original Message On 1/24/01, 4:40:35 AM, "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge! Help!!: I am running 2.0. Do you think that i should upgrade? -Original Message- From: Keith Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge! Help!! What version of KDE are you running? KDE 2.01 seems to fix a problem in 2.0 with fixed fonts rendering huge. -- Keith On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:19:40 -0500 "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. This is my plight. A few days ago, when I booted into 7.2, all of my text was so big that it filled the screen. When I click on the K menu everything is huge. As far as I know, I didn't make any changes to the system. I can't figure out what caused this... I have tried going into the control center and changing the font sizes but, this doesn't seem to change anything. HELP! How can I fix this? And, does anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance for your help. You guys and gals always seem to have the right answers. Ciao, Chris Kelly In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
[newbie] Screen fonts are huge!!!!! Help!!
I need some help. This is my plight. A few days ago, when I booted into 7.2, all of my text was so big that it filled the screen. When I click on the K menu everything is huge. As far as I know, I didn't make any changes to the system. I can't figure out what caused this... I have tried going into the control center and changing the font sizes but, this doesn't seem to change anything. HELP! How can I fix this? And, does anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance for your help. You guys and gals always seem to have the right answers. Ciao, Chris Kelly In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
Re: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge!!!!! Help!!
What version of KDE are you running? KDE 2.01 seems to fix a problem in 2.0 with fixed fonts rendering huge. -- Keith On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:19:40 -0500 "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. This is my plight. A few days ago, when I booted into 7.2, all of my text was so big that it filled the screen. When I click on the K menu everything is huge. As far as I know, I didn't make any changes to the system. I can't figure out what caused this... I have tried going into the control center and changing the font sizes but, this doesn't seem to change anything. HELP! How can I fix this? And, does anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance for your help. You guys and gals always seem to have the right answers. Ciao, Chris Kelly In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
RE: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge!!!!! Help!!
I am running 2.0. Do you think that i should upgrade? -Original Message- From: Keith Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge! Help!! What version of KDE are you running? KDE 2.01 seems to fix a problem in 2.0 with fixed fonts rendering huge. -- Keith On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:19:40 -0500 "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. This is my plight. A few days ago, when I booted into 7.2, all of my text was so big that it filled the screen. When I click on the K menu everything is huge. As far as I know, I didn't make any changes to the system. I can't figure out what caused this... I have tried going into the control center and changing the font sizes but, this doesn't seem to change anything. HELP! How can I fix this? And, does anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance for your help. You guys and gals always seem to have the right answers. Ciao, Chris Kelly In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
[newbie] Screen not redrawing properly?
The screen does not appear to be redrawing properly in GNOME. "Rubber-banding" leaves a trail of rectangles and changing the gamma in the GIMP did not take effect until I dragged the window off the screen and back on. I do not know if this is GNOME specific or not, as I've not used any other manager/Desktop long enough for it to manifest. Any ideas? Thanx. Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --
[newbie] Screen distortion in X
Well, Santa was nice and brought me a copy of LM7.2 (Wal-Mart version). The install went VERY well on my P75/40MB RAM/700MB HD Texas Instruments laptop. The only problem I have is horizontal distortion lines on my screen, about 10 pixels apart. They appear to just shift the line about 5 pixels left. I assume this is a frequency problem, but I'm not sure what to change. I selected the generic LCD panel 640x480 monitor and the appropriate video card (Cirrus, not sure which, but it was the last card in the Cirrus list, and was the one in my laptop manual). Works great, I just hate the distortion. Anyone got a fix? TIA -Carlton
[newbie] screen freaks out.
When Xwindows starts everything is fine until I move my mouse. The screen goes black. What can I do?
[newbie] Screen Flickers
Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor. HP Pavilion 500MHz AMD K6-II 280 Ram ATI All In Wonder 128 32MHz 10 G Harddrive I carefully went through X setup during installation picking my monitor and video card. I tried different configuration on color and depth settings but upon testing I get an error message and a list drops down pointing to my keyboard, mouse, monitor,video card, and other I am not familiar with.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Flickers
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Robert Pena wrote: Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor. Looks like you did something wrong with the vertical refresh rate of the video card or the monitor... Try setting things to 640x480 and 256 colors. If that works, gradually work your way up. This usually works for the non-lin4win setup, it should, afaik, also work for the one you use. Disclaimer: I never used lin4win, and don't intend to become even a newbie on it. ;) Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up
root wrote: This is a strange one to me. I just installed Mandrake 7.2 GPL(clean install). When I boot up with LILO and select the default (linux), my monitor goes black when X starts up. The led on the monitor goes amber like it's no longer recieving signals from the video card. BUT, when I boot up and select FailSafe, and change absolutly nothing at the config screens (I just hit enter when it pops up) it boots into X just fine.? Info: Pentium MMX 200 WD 33100 3.1Gig HD WD 36400 6.4Gig HD Diamond Stealth2000 Pro (Virge Chipset) Realtek 8029 PCI Ethernet 3Dfx VooDoo2 3D Accelerator SB16 SoundCard Model#CT2940 Creative 52xMx CDRom Optiquest V775 Monitor Logitech FirstMouse+ Serial If you need any other info, let me know. Thanks! You know, it is funny that you mention that. The same thing happens to me when I boot using loadlin or BootMagic. Same thing happens with Red Hat, too. I don't have a problem with Lilo, though.
Re: [newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up
I too am experiencing this problem. X loads, screen totally freezes. Only option seems pressing the power button, or disabling X on startup. This may seem a little reduntant, but I'm contributing just to point out it isn't some obscure, isolated problem. Comp specs: Pentium Classic 200 One 3.2 gig hd One 8.4 gig hd (motherboard can only utilize 8 gigs :) 96 megs of ram Realtek 8029 Ethernet Some proprietary sound card ATI Rage 2. Voodoo 2. Mandrake 7.2
[newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up
This is a strange one to me. I just installed Mandrake 7.2 GPL(clean install). When I boot up with LILO and select the default (linux), my monitor goes black when X starts up. The led on the monitor goes amber like it's no longer recieving signals from the video card. BUT, when I boot up and select FailSafe, and change absolutly nothing at the config screens (I just hit enter when it pops up) it boots into X just fine.? Info: Pentium MMX 200 WD 33100 3.1Gig HD WD 36400 6.4Gig HD Diamond Stealth2000 Pro (Virge Chipset) Realtek 8029 PCI Ethernet 3Dfx VooDoo2 3D Accelerator SB16 SoundCard Model#CT2940 Creative 52xMx CDRom Optiquest V775 Monitor Logitech FirstMouse+ Serial If you need any other info, let me know. Thanks!
