Re: Large font when booting into linux when using NVIDIA card

2006-08-26 Thread thunder7
From: Adam D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:14:31PM -0700 > Ever since I have built my first x86 box (AMD64) I have not been able to get > my initial font size down from the about 1" size. I have included in my grub > the following line > > ..root=/dev/hda1 ro video=nvidiafb:

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread A.E.Lawrence
Jo Shields wrote: > A.E.Lawrence wrote: > >> Nobody has mentioned /etc/inittab in this thread so far. >> >> ISTR that I just had to assign a run level to include kde/gdm/whatever. >> >> Runlevel 2 is usually kept for text alone which is very useful indeed >> when your GUI goes belly up. >> >> ael

Re: apt/dpkg always upgrade still upgraded packages

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Stoehr
Hi, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Remove the unofficial repository if you use the official one now. They > contain the same packages but different builds of them, which confuses > apt-get. the problem was, that I had the official "testing" repository in my /etc/apt/sources.list (to get the stuff

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread Viktor Tsyrennikov
Hi, finally I am writing this email from KDE under AMD64 Etch b3. Here is how it worked: 1. Clean network install 2. Install kde-core and kdm (by suggestion of Scott Lair) Everything works well. Just installed KDevelop and compiled a test C++ code. Thanks for all your input! Victo

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread Jo Shields
A.E.Lawrence wrote: Nobody has mentioned /etc/inittab in this thread so far. ISTR that I just had to assign a run level to include kde/gdm/whatever. Runlevel 2 is usually kept for text alone which is very useful indeed when your GUI goes belly up. ael That's a redhatism. Debian runs at runl

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread Scott Lair
Viktor Tsyrennikov wrote: > Hi again, > > here is my lspci output: > > 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller > (rev a3) > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3) > 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2) > 00:02.0 USB Contr

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread A.E.Lawrence
Nobody has mentioned /etc/inittab in this thread so far. ISTR that I just had to assign a run level to include kde/gdm/whatever. Runlevel 2 is usually kept for text alone which is very useful indeed when your GUI goes belly up. ael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Large font when booting into linux when using NVIDIA card

2006-08-26 Thread Jo Shields
Jo Shields wrote: Adam D wrote: Daniel Foote wrote: Ever since I have built my first x86 box (AMD64) I have not been able to get my initial font size down from the about 1" size. I have included in my grub the following line ..root=/dev/hda1 ro video=nvidiafb:vmode:22 quiet splash Using 'v

Re: Large font when booting into linux when using NVIDIA card

2006-08-26 Thread Jo Shields
Adam D wrote: Daniel Foote wrote: Ever since I have built my first x86 box (AMD64) I have not been able to get my initial font size down from the about 1" size. I have included in my grub the following line ..root=/dev/hda1 ro video=nvidiafb:vmode:22 quiet splash Using 'video=nvidiafb:vmod

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Chris Wakefield wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 10:06 pm, Viktor Tsyrennikov wrote: Hi, here is more description of the problem. It is a clean Etch beta 3 (AMD64) system (network) installed on Opteron 170 system. During installation I chose 'Desktop' so after reboot it should have load