[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

[Matt Rhys-Roberts]

Hello Chris,

I too have fallen foul of this problem ("can't see the GUI, reinstall
the whole damn thing") in previous releases of Mandrake. I feel there
may be a strong case for including a utility that enables you to tweak
more of the graphics driver's parameters, rather than just pick
between the listed available graphics cards/chips.

I wonder how many other readers think this particular installation
hurdle requires more development, tutorials, FAQs etc?

-- 
Best regards,

Matt Rhys-Roberts
Leominster

mailto:matt.rhys-roberts at q-par.com


Friday, September 17, 2004, 9:00:10 PM, you wrote:

DCO> Hello everyone
DCO>  
DCO> Just to say how much I enjoyed my first meeting with the
DCO> group and a big thank you to all of you who helped sort out
DCO> my 'Partition Problems' especially Gary, Mark and Julian.  Felt a
DCO> bit of prat bringing along such a dull and time consuming problem
DCO> but I can see now I would never have managed it on my own. Great
DCO> stuff and thanks again.

DCO>     Am still a bit stuck in getting the display right. The
DCO> best I have managed is to get a few scattered icons, some on top
DCO> of each other, some that are draggable leaving a trail of ghost
DCO> images, others inactive, lots of grey blue mish/mash which we saw
DCO> last night but now with a readable message "KDE is up and
DCO> running"in amongst it - a small advance but LINUX is still not
DCO> usable from a graphic interface.

DCO>     I think I need a path from the grub prompt to the root
DCO> command line and then a way to get into changing the resolution
DCO> and monitor settings in Drakx rather as Mark was doing at the end
DCO> of the evening. This would save having to re-install Mandrake
DCO> 10.0 from scratch in order to get to the post install
DCO> 'Configuration Screen'  where I have to date been trying to get
DCO> the right settings. Would I be right and does anyone have any
DCO> ideas.   In summary it looks as though everything has installed
DCO> OK but I can't get access to a usable interface to change the
DCO> display settings so that the whole becomes viewable.

DCO>     Anyway many thanks to all - a very interesting and
DCO> useful evening and I'm looking forward to helping the group in
DCO> any way I can once I get up and running and can take things in a
DCO> bit better.

DCO>     All the best 

DCO>     Chris O
DCO>     Tenbury