[dundee] re: Xandros installation complete - some Q's

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 00:28, Paul Mitchell wrote:
> First, thnx 4 the help at the meeting of the TLUG. 
>  
> Went home, installed V1.0 and it went in like clockwork on a seperate
> partition. Recognised all hardware and installed all the necessary
> drivers from its own database. GUI is cool and I am 100% sold, even
> though I am using the newbie version of Linux.
>  

Excellent!


> I have onboard sound and graphics although I have an NVidia graphics
> card installed in an expansion slot. How do I switch so that the
> seperate graphics card kicks in? At present, I have set the onboard
> graphics to draw 8 Megs of RAM but the card runs at 64 Megs.
> Consequently, I would prefer to use the card. I suppose I could up the
> amount of RAM the onboard graphics uses but the card is way better.

I think the easiest thing to do would be to disable the onboard
graphics. You will probably need to do this from the BIOS. You may then
need to rejig your X configuaration for the nvidia card.


As a side not: I guess you have 2 DSUB (15 pin vga connector) ports, one
for the on board graphics and one for the nvidia. Have you tried putting
the monitor onto the nvidia card? You probably have, and got no output
or text output until X starts.

 
>  
> I presume setting up the internet connection simply requires me to
> configure Mozilla to my existing settings which I have done many times
> before; e-mail client ditto. How do I create an icon to access the

I wouldn't be surprised if KDE lets you just drag the Mozilla entry in
the menu onto the desktop (just like windows...)


>  e-mail client on the desktop? Or do I simply open Mozilla and
> navigate from there?
>  
> BTW, I frequent websites such as blacksun.box.sk, New Order and
> Astalavista. Seems the hacker elite all use Linux or Unix
> OS's...hmmm...
>  

Yeah.... this is probably largely because a lot of the hacker community
grew out of the UNIX OS/community. And of course UNIX/Linux lends itself
very much to the hacker mentality.


> cheers
>  
> Paul
>  

[ snip ps & pps]


--
Andrew