Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
John Griffiths wrote: > > At 07:56 PM 8/22/2000 -0600, montefin wrote: > >ATTN: John Griffiths, > > > >You must report to Penn State immediately. > > > >By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. > >We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. > > > >There, you must i

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:27:54AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > At 04:19 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >> a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a > >> better way? > > > >$ startx -- -bpp > > > >...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (general

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:56 PM 8/22/2000 -0600, montefin wrote: >ATTN: John Griffiths, > >You must report to Penn State immediately. > >By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. >We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. > >There, you must immediately identify yourself as an auto-inc

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread montefin
ATTN: John Griffiths, You must report to Penn State immediately. By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. There, you must immediately identify yourself as an auto-incarcerant, guilty of Copyright Obfuscation, and serve

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread I. Tura
>a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a better way? Try xf86config And you can edit by hand the /etc/XF86Config using info from /usr/doc/x* (very useful info in /usr/doc/xserver-common) hth Ignasi _ \___

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
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Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:19 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a >> better way? > >$ startx -- -bpp > >...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (generally deprecated), 32. > >Or in /etc/X11/XF86Config, change the value of "Depth"

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:40:17AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a > better way? $ startx -- -bpp ...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (generally deprecated), 32. Or in /etc/X11/XF86Config, change the value of "Depth"

WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
Bright was my heart and high my hopes when first i places a "slink" disk into my cdrom in the year of our lord 1999. Those first early skirmishes resulted in crushing defeats. I will bear the scars to my grave. In recent months the battle has intensified... a long grim week with an installed s