Re: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:28:28AM -0800, alan brown wrote: So my question is, How can I use the keyboard to kill X-Windows (as my mouse is dead)? ctrl-alt-backspace should kill X and return you to the command line. And while I'm at it, how can I truly shut down linux. Because I am not

Re: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:24, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:56:44PM -0800, alan brown wrote: Modes 1024*768 Try: 1024x768 (My own file has 800x600) Barely usable? 800x600 on a 21 screen sounds great to me! :-) Pigeon Reminds me of the system that I got at a

RE: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread alan brown
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help configuring my monitor resolution... said alan brown (on 2002-12-04), The screen appears stuck on a 800x600 resolution. I've looked at the manual try auto configuring X with debconf and the discover (and mdetect) packages: make

RE: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Geordie Birch
said alan brown (on 2002-12-05), So I'm not sure that I'm truly out of x-windows (though I think perhaps I am). No, you're not out of X at that point. So my question is, How can I use the keyboard to kill X-Windows (as my mouse is dead)? Ctrl-alt-backspace should kill X. This can be

RE: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Wathen, Metherion
gdm is the command. FWIW, mw. -Original Message- From: alan brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:28 AM To: 'Geordie Birch'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: help configuring my monitor resolution... I tried reconfiguring but now I'm in a worse pickle than

Re: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:56:44PM -0800, alan brown wrote: Modes 1024*768 Try: 1024x768 (My own file has 800x600) Barely usable? 800x600 on a 21 screen sounds great to me! :-) Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Pigeon wrote: Barely usable? 800x600 on a 21 screen sounds great to me! :-) Pigeon I've seen people here running windows at 640x480 on a 19 monitor. Not sure how anyone gets anything done at 640x480, let alone wasting that much screen real estate :) I prefer 1600x1200 on

help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-04 Thread alan brown
I've managed to muddle through the Debian Linux installation and get X Windows installed. However, I've been unable to make use of my 21 monitor. The screen appears stuck on a 800x600 resolution. I've looked at the manual at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.pdf

Re: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-04 Thread Geordie Birch
said alan brown (on 2002-12-04), The screen appears stuck on a 800x600 resolution. I've looked at the manual try auto configuring X with debconf and the discover (and mdetect) packages: make sure you have discover and mdetect installed; backup your 'good' XF86Config-4; purge X: dpkg