Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-02-11 Thread Jerry Chamberlin
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RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-02-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Earl Needham wrote: > > Well I think I got 'er goin', except I'm still trying to > figure out how to connect to the GPS and TNC from within > VMWare. I'll fol with it for a while and maybe get it done. Can someone running VMWare help out Earl? -- Curt, WE7U: X

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-02-11 Thread Jason KG4WSV
In my fairly limited experience with VMware, it doesn't like it when the serial ports/USB devices come and go, especially if they are in use. If you hard code com port support in the VMware config file (e.g., you let windows take care of the USB/rs232 driver and let VMware see a com port) things d

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-01-27 Thread Earl Needham
At 10:32 1/25/2008, Earl Needham wrote: At 11:35 8/1/2007, Bob Donnell wrote: VMWare Player is available from http://vmware.com/products/player/ A pre-built Xastir installation (what VMWare refers to as a Virtual Appliance) is available from sites listed here: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-01-27 Thread Earl Needham
Well I think I got 'er goin', except I'm still trying to figure out how to connect to the GPS and TNC from within VMWare. I'll fol with it for a while and maybe get it done. Thanks, Earl KD5XB -- Earl Needham Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-01-27 Thread Earl Needham
At 11:35 8/1/2007, Bob Donnell wrote: VMWare Player is available from http://vmware.com/products/player/ A pre-built Xastir installation (what VMWare refers to as a Virtual Appliance) is available from sites listed here: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware#Install_a_pre-built_xast

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-01-27 Thread Earl Needham
At 13:19 1/25/2008, Bob Donnell wrote: Hi Earl, I've not tried the VMWare Server for running the Xastir appliance - I used VMWare Player - in fact, it's running on this machine right now, and it's what the Wiki suggests. For now, I'd suggest grabbing VMWare Player, the current version. Uninsta

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-04 Thread Earl Needham
At 08:55 PM 8/3/2007, Lee Bengston wrote: I think before giving VMware a whirl, I would install Fedora as part of a dual boot system, which it sounds like you are on track to do, and if there are any problems with Fedora detecting/using hardware, then you could fall back to using VMware.

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-03 Thread Lee Bengston
On 8/1/07, Earl Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tell me where I can find VMWare and I may give it a go. I > really am only going through this to try Xastir for a while -- sure > hope it's worth it! > > 7 3 > Earl > > P.S. I downloaded Fedora last here at the mot

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Friis
Tate Belden wrote: Earl Needham wrote: I got Fedora downloaded last night, and burned to CD this morning. Got a quick question -- does it support dual-booting? I took a quick look, but then aborted when it seemed hell-bent on installing on the whole partition! 7 3 Ea

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Tate Belden
Earl Needham wrote: I got Fedora downloaded last night, and burned to CD this morning. Got a quick question -- does it support dual-booting? I took a quick look, but then aborted when it seemed hell-bent on installing on the whole partition! 7 3 Earl Oh yea - it su

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Donnell
l file, then copy the backup file to the original name. Hope that helps! 73, Bob, KD7NM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Earl Needham Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:11 AM To: xastir@xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux]

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Rick Green
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Earl Needham wrote: This is a laptop, but the video shows up as "ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series". I've got a 2-year old eMachines M6810 laptop, with an ATI Radeon card. (Radeon Mobility 9600 w/64MB RAM) When I initially installed Kubuntu Feisty, it didn't select t

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Earl Needham
At 08:37 AM 7/31/2007, Eric H Christensen wrote: Earl, Fedora 7 comes on a Live CD now (http://fedoraproject.org/) that will allow you to try it out before committing to it. (There's a little icon on the desktop for ease of installation when you are ready to install it.) I'll be installing i

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Earl Needham
At 01:43 PM 7/31/2007, Steve Friis wrote: Hi Earl, I think all versions of Linux have little "gocha's", but I have been using Fedora since FC2. I think, if you can get to like Gnome over KDE you will like it. I have 3 machines here running FC6 and 2 laptops running F7 with no serious problems

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Earl Needham
At 01:40 PM 7/31/2007, Lee Bengston wrote: A couple of ideas - maybe it is Kubuntu/KDE related, and the standard Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop may not have the problem, so you could try installing Ubuntu. I have that here, and that would be an easy thing to try, but I'm not sure they

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-08-01 Thread Earl Needham
At 11:04 AM 7/31/2007, Jeremy Utley wrote: Hey Earl - I don't think it's Ubuntu itself that's the buggy thing. I seem to remember from your previous descriptions that you had a newer ATI card in your machine? (Radeon 9600 if memory serves) ATI's linux drivers are notoriously buggy drivers, a

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Friis
Hi Earl, I think all versions of Linux have little "gocha's", but I have been using Fedora since FC2. I think, if you can get to like Gnome over KDE you will like it. I have 3 machines here running FC6 and 2 laptops running F7 with no serious problems. Xastir is running on all of them. I even

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-31 Thread Lee Bengston
> > On 7/31/07, Earl Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And now it's gone bad again, but it's SO bad that I can't > > even see the screen well enough to change the resolution to something > > that will work. > > > > I really wanted Kubuntu to work, because I really wanted

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-31 Thread Jeremy Utley
On 7/31/07, Earl Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:45 PM 7/19/2007, I wrote: > > > >At one point, I had 25 various xorg files, all different > >iterations of the same thing. I tried to delete the excess ones and > >got the basic one too, so the machine was toast. Reloaded Kubuntu > >and st

Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Earl Needham wrote: > And now it's gone bad again, but it's SO bad that I can't > even see the screen well enough to change the resolution to something > that will work. > > I really wanted Kubuntu to work, because I really wanted > Xastir to work. But I thi

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-31 Thread Eric H Christensen
Earl, Fedora 7 comes on a Live CD now (http://fedoraproject.org/) that will allow you to try it out before committing to it. (There's a little icon on the desktop for ease of installation when you are ready to install it.) I'll be installing it on a couple of older boxes here in the short term

[Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-31 Thread Earl Needham
At 05:45 PM 7/19/2007, I wrote: At one point, I had 25 various xorg files, all different iterations of the same thing. I tried to delete the excess ones and got the basic one too, so the machine was toast. Reloaded Kubuntu and started searching on the internet and found some common problems havi