> Hmm... A real serial terminal like a VT100? (I actually still own a
> vt102. But it is noisy and slow. Mostly it is my footrest these
> days.)
Wow, I haven't touched a real VT100 in many years. But I used to
service them, so I remember them quite well. What I meant here is
the ttys that are lo
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:16:55AM +0200, lee wrote:
> Nelson Green writes:
>
> > have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so
> > with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find
> > my primary use of the GUI is email, the web apps I hav
Bob Proulx writes:
> lee wrote:
>> Bob Proulx writes:
>> > For email I use the 'mutt' mail user agent. It is extremely fast. It
>> > ...
>>
>> I totally agree :) And you're definitely going to love gnus! I've used
>> mutt for 15 years or so and never could find anything better --- until I
>
lee wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > For email I use the 'mutt' mail user agent. It is extremely fast. It
> > ...
>
> I totally agree :) And you're definitely going to love gnus! I've used
> mutt for 15 years or so and never could find anything better --- until I
> tried gnus. Gnus is like th
Bob Proulx writes:
> I used FVWM since somewhere in the early 1990's specifically because
> it existed as a fully functional window manager that wasn't changing.
> It was stable over decades. Think of the Ubuntu Unity transition, the
> KDE 3->4 transition, the GNOME 2->3 transition, all very dis
Nelson Green wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> You bring up an interesting point. I am running XFCE, and that is because
> the limited amount of research I did into window managers told me it was
> the simplest "complete" solution, and I did not have time to learn how to
> configure a simple system.
It all de
Nelson Green writes:
>
>> From: l...@yun.yagibdah.de
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
>> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:16:55 +0200
>>
>> Nelson Green writes:
>>
>> >
> From: l...@yun.yagibdah.de
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:16:55 +0200
>
> Nelson Green writes:
>
> > have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like
Nelson Green writes:
> have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so
> with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find
> my primary use of the GUI is email, the web apps I have to support, and
> Guayadeque for my classical music fixes.
Y
> It is something that Debian made up. It sounds better than saying
> "large set of heavy and bloated desktop programs". :-) I don't run a
> desktop session like GNOME or KDE. Nor LXDE or XFCE either for that
> matter. I, and you too apparently, only run the X window system with
> a simple window
The Wanderer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >The Wanderer wrote:
> >>Bob Proulx wrote:
> >>>The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink
> >>>handle that always points to the currently configured window
> >>>manager.
I guess I did say "window manager" there. That isn't precisely
cor
> Nelson Green wrote:
> > So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
>
> There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the
> simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The
> xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create
> it with the fol
On 08/29/2012 02:13 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
exec x-session-manager
The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that
always points to the currently configured window manager.
Isn't that 'x-window-manager'?
At least, I don't ha
The Wanderer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > exec x-session-manager
>
> >The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that
> >always points to the currently configured window manager.
>
> Isn't that 'x-window-manager'?
>
> At least, I don't have an 'x-session-manager' on m
On 08/29/2012 12:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Nelson Green wrote:
So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the simplest for
you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes
will use it if the f
Nelson Green wrote:
> So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the
simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The
xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create
it with the following cont
> Then for batch mode automated startup I have the following in my X1<
> startup file.
>
> if xrandr --query | grep -q HDMI;; then
> xrandr --auto --output HDMI --right-of HDMI<
> fi
Hi Bob,
I've almost gotten everything working, but one question remains.
First, I ended up removing the two Qu
> Also, consider using a backported kernel (with xorg and mesa) instead a
> self-compiled one.
>
I am certainly willing to try that. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> I would center first in getting the correct driver to be loaded and then
> go with the dual card setup. Good luck then and report b
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:22:26 -0500, Nelson Green wrote:
(...)
>> Some unordered/random/quick thoughts...
>>
>> 1/ There seems to be a problem with the driver. As you are using
>> Squeeze with nvidia cards, the driver to load should be either
>> "nouveau" or "nv" but no "fbdev". My will guess is t
> From: nelsongree...@hotmail.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Dual-Monitor help
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:16:03 -0500
>
>
> > Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I
> &g
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: noela...@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:20:04 +
>
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:36 -0500, Nelson Green wrote:
>
> > I have been trying t
> Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I
> have is nothing from xrandr nor lxrandr shows an output interface. If
> I could get that information I might at least have a place to start.
OK, I feel dumb. I was just setting up a VM, and the output of xrandr is
similar.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:36 -0500, Nelson Green wrote:
> I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working, and am getting
> no where with this, so it is time to request help.
>
> I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would like to
> have one large screen spread across
> It is possible that the 'nouveau' driver doesn't do dual monitors with the
> Quadro
> 600 cards. i am not to good with these things, looks like it tries 'nouveau,
> vesa & FB, and fails. ,
>
> I do run a Quadro dual port card, I use the 'nvidia' driver, the xorg drivers
> do
> not work with my
> Nelson,
> Do you have a xorg.conf file or do you let X sort it all out itself? I
> noticed from your xrandr posting, that only one resolution is defined
> so maybe it's hard coded. I run without a conf file X seems to pull
> everything correctly for my hardware. I am still kinda green
On Thursday 23 August 2012 1:41:37 pm Nelson Green wrote:
> > > Nelson,
> > > Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > > or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
> > > apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
> > >
> > > Sha
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Nelson Green wrote:
>
>
> > > Nelson,
> > > Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > > or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
> > > apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
> > >
> > > Shane
> > Nelson,
> > Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
> > apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
> >
> > Shane
>
> I sure did:
> $ dpkg -l | grep nouveau | cut -d " " -f 3
> libd
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:32:59 -0600
> Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
> From: s...@rasmussenequipment.com
> To: nelsongree...@hotmail.com
> CC: b...@proulx.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Nelson,
> Did you install the
Nelson,
Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau or
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from apt or
download and installed from Nvidia's site?
Shane
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Nelson Green wrote:
>
> > Nelson Green wrote:
> > > I ha
> Nelson Green wrote:
> > I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
> > like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
>
> I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
> not be useful to you. But...
>
> > I am not sure where to sta
Nelson Green wrote:
> I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
> like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
not be useful to you. But...
> I am not sure where to start. One thing I h
Good evening all,
I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working, and am getting no where
with this, so it is time to request help.
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would like to have
one large screen spread across the two monitors. The graphics cards are nVidi
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