Re: [newbie] new user - new installation

2000-01-29 Thread David van Balen
Xconfigurator or xf86config should fix the display problem. To exit either kde or gnome, you click on the "logout" button which looks like a padlock under kde and, I believe, is under the "foot" menu in gnome and is labeled simply "log out" or something of the sort. To reboot your computer, you

Re: [newbie] new user - new installation

2000-01-29 Thread Lance Carrie Borden
Alan Pitts wrote: Would someone also be kind enough to tell me the correct way to close down, exit linux from either kde and/or gnome so that I can reboot into windows. Sorry, can't help you with the screen problem, but many people here can! If you will log out of kde or gnome (hit the X on

[newbie] new user - new installation

2000-01-28 Thread Alan Pitts
Hi, I have just installed the Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 6.0 systemapparently successfuly - Lilo boots into both windows and linux ! My problem is that the display I see in Linux is far too big for my screen ! It's like holding a magazine right up to your face so that you can't see the

[newbie] new user - new installation

2000-01-28 Thread Alan Pitts
Hi, Apologies if this is received twicemy fault...I'm having a Monday on a Friday. I have just installed the Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 6.0 systemapparently successfuly - Lilo boots into both windows and linux ! My problem is that the display I see in Linux is far too big for my