Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:11:20PM -0600, Cage insinuated: > > > Nick Hastings wrote: > >* Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031203 14:36]: > > > >>Googling my topic, I find, > >>http://www.maenad.net/geek/di8k-debian/node5.html > >> > >> "The way to reconfigure the X-server is by using dpkg (what

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Cage
Nick Hastings wrote: * Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031203 14:36]: Googling my topic, I find, http://www.maenad.net/geek/di8k-debian/node5.html "The way to reconfigure the X-server is by using dpkg (what else?). Do: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Thats right. to reconfigure X

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 03 Dec 2003 02:50:57AM -0700, Bob Proulx insinuated: > Roger Chrisman wrote: > > Googling my topic, I find, > > I read your followup and know that you have solved this problem > already. (In fact I am quite impressed with your ability to dig into > the problems you have encountered and re

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Roger Chrisman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Googling my topic, I find, > http://www.maenad.net/geek/di8k-debian/node5.html > >"The way to reconfigure the X-server is by using dpkg (what else?). >Do: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > >to reconfigure X. It's best just t

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Nick Hastings
* Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031203 14:36]: > Googling my topic, I find, > http://www.maenad.net/geek/di8k-debian/node5.html > >"The way to reconfigure the X-server is by using dpkg (what else?). Do: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Thats right. >to reconfigure X. It

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Roger Chrisman: > I suspect doing a clean install of the system is *not* the most > efficient way to configure either monitor or Ethernet. Or in Debian, > is it? Doing a clean install is almost never the best way to do anything in Debian. Remember, you don't even have to reinstall fro

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Roger Chrisman wrote: > Googling my topic, I find, I read your followup and know that you have solved this problem already. (In fact I am quite impressed with your ability to dig into the problems you have encountered and resolve them. Very good!) But I wanted to comment anyway and hopefully th

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-03 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi, I did it - got X and Ethernet working. As best I can tell (because I copy and pasted my steps here) this is how: in 'man base-config' I read, /root/dbootstrap_settings, if it exists, is sources by base-config and numerous environment variables set therein are used to control

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-02 Thread Roger Chrisman
Googling my topic, I find, http://www.maenad.net/geek/di8k-debian/node5.html "The way to reconfigure the X-server is by using dpkg (what else?). Do: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to reconfigure X. It's best just to change one parameter at a time, so you can see what's wor

HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-02 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi, I had my monitor working fine the first time I installed Debian Woody. I remember configuring it during the install routine. My monitor is a 17 inch flat panel LCD (Samsung SP 1702) and I had selected: - VESA - 1024x768 @ 60Hz - 16bit color which Gnome had no problem with. However, I had f