30 July 2005 Tony Godshall wrote: Hello Tony,
thanks for your reply. > This list has a lot of traffic, so most people just read > subject lines and read if pertinent. So you're more likely My first message because of my problem to this news group (I know it is indeed a mailing list, but I read it via Usenet) has had a much better subject line and was more detailed, but I haven't got an answer. > Generally, for X issues, you'll probably want to provide > your XF86Config-4 file and the output of lspci and the > output of X -probeonly. I can't give you the output of lspci and x-probonly now, cause my newsreader (StarOffice 5.2) isn't yet installed on Debian (see below), but Windows. I will give you my XF86Config-4 file, which I can read with the EXT2/3-FS-Driver for Windows XP (http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html), I have edited it manually, to support the native resolution of my notebook): -------------------------------------------------------------------- # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # ... # ... # # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200]" Driver "nv" EndSection # Section "Modes" inserted 2005 Jul 26 (see /root/doc/acer1363wlmi/A1363WLM.TXT): Section "Modes" # rajout VM Identifier "16:10" ModeLine "1280x800" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 EndSection # outcommented original Section "Monitor", 2005 Jul 26: # Section "Monitor" # Identifier "Generic Monitor" # HorizSync 28-50 # VertRefresh 43-75 # Option "DPMS" # EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 30 - 90 VertRefresh 50 - 75.0 Option "UseEditFreqs" "1" UseModes "16:10" Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = aspect-scaled" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" Virtual 1280 800 EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection -------------------------------------------------------------------- As I am a legal owner of OS/2, I have the excellent Type 1 fonts (original Adobe fonts with e. g. real Times New Roman, Helvetica and Courier) Does anyone know, how to integrate these fonts (which look better than the corresponding TTF-fonts from Windows) into Debian? I append the original message I wrote to this list below (changes done now in square brackets), the subject was: New to Debian (Peter): Problem with resolution, sound, installing StarOffice 5.2 Hi! -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have just installed Debian Sarge (stable) on my notebook (Acer Aspire 1363 WLMi, with a Sempron Mobile, an Nvidia 5200 go Graphic no shared mem but a real graphic). It is running :-) When installing, there was no resolution to choose, when configuring X11, which matches the native resolution of my notebook (1280x800), so I have configured a few others (smaller), the highest 1024x768, 24 bit). How may I set the X11 resolution to 1280x800? (1) [Already fixed now, but fonts are now nearly unreadable] At first, the sound was functioning, in both KDE and ... [deleted, as sound works now again] problem. (2) It would be better, to write my messages under Debian of course, therefore I want to install StarOffice 5.2 which has a Newsreader (no more included in newer versions of OpenOffice/StarOffice) sorry I don't want to use another one, I have to learn a lot of other things and the one of 5.2 works fine for me. Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.2. May there be any problems when doing it? (I'm afraid, it won't have a Debian package) (3) [This would be the most important thing for me, cause I do most things with StarOffice 5.2 on Windows/OS/2. So if StarOffice 5.2 would be running on Debian, I could use Debian for real work, not just for experimenting. Of course I have a CD for Linux, but it is of course no deb-Package] I'm not completely new to Debian, cause on another PC I have installed Knoppix to hard disk, and even have compiled and installed a Sinclair QL emulator in it (QL is the computer Linus used, before he bought the famous 386-PC). I. e. I know the most important commands (ls, cp, ...) and have even a little knowledge of shell scripting. And I have the new book of Martin F. Krafft, "The Debian System". -------------------------------------------------------------------- Another problem: My Notebook has a touchpad. On windows and even OS/2 I can touch it shortly to simulate a mouse click (even dragging is possible). This doesn't work with Debian, I have to use the mouse keys. Is there a package to get a similar behavior on Linux? Peter -- peter_sulzer doesn't like spam and this is my domain: t-online.de
