XF86 configuration

2001-01-01 Thread MrHobbit420
Hi, I am new to linux and to debian 2.2r2, currently struggling to configure Xf86. Questions : 1. My Video card is NVIDIA Riva TNT2 model 64. In the installation process "anxious" failed to identify the video card. However after installation, while I am trying to configure

X window too big

2001-01-04 Thread MrHobbit420
thanks for all the help with the mouse and video card configuration. In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So when I open a new w

X window too big

2001-01-04 Thread MrHobbit420
> In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is >huge. Actually it is just >four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to >move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So >when I open a new window, I have to look around the >other 3/4 of the screen to see

Re: X window too big

2001-01-04 Thread MrHobbit420
thanks, this helped some, but hasn't resolved the whole problem : In a message dated 1/4/2001 10:22:57 PM US Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad

What is CORBA

2001-01-05 Thread MrHobbit420
I don't know how but all of a sudden there is a CORBA directory in my /etc directory. and CORBA directory contains the X11 directory and the xservers directory. whenever I try "startx" it is giving the error : /etc/X11/X is not executable. But the directory /etc/X11 is now nonexistent. I t

audio filesystem

2001-01-14 Thread MrHobbit420
I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. probably specifying the file system might solve the problem. iso9660 filesystem is not accepted. Do you know if audio cd's has a special filesystem name that might work? thanks

Fwd: video card suggestions

2001-01-16 Thread MrHobbit420
I have a NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video card and am a first time user of debian. I am using version 2.2r2. I am having three problems : 1. the resolution is pretty bad. I have windows in the first partition of my computer, there the windows resolution is much better. But after configuring my xwi