Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 20 2008, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: > "that it had all the cool effects" > Don't what you exactly mean with cool effects. Is it the KDE desktop, > the login-window or some 3d animations? I am guessing it is the compiz 3D effects, wobbly windows, window shades, cube effect.. All I know is

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-20 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 16 2008, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: Before spending many hours trying to get a usable Xserver-configuration (or other configs), I always used an live-cd like Sidux, Knoppix, Kanotix or maybe Ubuntu (all Debian based). The distribution running the best way, you can

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Kuma
vvokong wrote: > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" does not work, when i install lenny today. > . > This command only askes question for keyboard, and nothing for video card. > > ... > > When I install lenny about one week ago, this command works well. > What's wrong with it ? > The bug was repor

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-17 Thread vvokong
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" does not work, when i install lenny today. . This command only askes question for keyboard, and nothing for video card. Finally, I got a xorg.conf with empty sections for video card, as following: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-16 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Dear Madams & Sirs Thanks Benjamin Schmidt for your advice. I have been spent about ten hours looking through documentation and trying things but to no avail. hwinfo told me that I had a Cirrus Lorgic GD5446 card but xdebconfigurator did not use it. Instead it used a

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 21:12, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > Dear Madams & Sirs > > Thanks Benjamin Schmidt for your advice. > > I have been spent about ten hours looking through documentation and > trying things but to no avail. > > hwinfo told me that I had a

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Dear Madams & Sirs Thanks Benjamin Schmidt for your advice. I have been spent about ten hours looking through documentation and trying things but to no avail. hwinfo told me that I had a Cirrus Lorgic GD5446 card but xdebconfigurator did not use it. Instead it used a SiS card and X failed to loa

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen Grant Brown Assumed you have the x-server "xorg" in use... A simple and quick configuration menu you get when you call the command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 08:16, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > Hi All, > > How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Please be more specific in your question. What problem are you trying to solve? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shru

Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen Grant Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]