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