Re: NEW USER set-up assistance

2006-03-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi, welcome to Debian! Jacob W Tennant wrote: I need some help in setting up my newly installed debian system. It is a net install system with all of the latest packages running Gnome desktop. OK, let's start with a few general things: Since the two problems you mention are hardware-specific,

Re: NEW USER set-up assistance

2006-03-03 Thread Craig M. Houck
>My problems are, > >1. The video display will only let me use up to 800x600 size whereas the >same monitor under WinXP would work at 1024x768. So how would I go about >correctly setting this in the base config? You need to get the Horizontial scan rate and Vertical refresh rate for your monitor

Re: NEW USER set-up assistance

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:54 -0500, Jacob W Tennant wrote: > I need some help in setting up my newly installed debian system. It is a net > install system with all of the latest packages running Gnome desktop. what release are you using? sarge (stable), etch (testing), or sid (unstable) ? > > My

NEW USER set-up assistance

2006-03-03 Thread Jacob W Tennant
I need some help in setting up my newly installed debian system. It is a net install system with all of the latest packages running Gnome desktop. My problems are, 1. The video display will only let me use up to 800x600 size whereas the same monitor under WinXP would work at 1024x768. So how w