[Sussex] Resolutions

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi John

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:10:38 +0100
"John D." <john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>
> I'm not the right person too help. My linux knowledge and very small 
> postage stamps come to mind - Oh and I've never used Ubuntu.
> 
> But I recall having resolution problems previously with Mandrake
> (sure, I know it's not Ubuntu Hoary),  and I ended up having to use
> the GUI selection of "res settings" somewhere in kde to tell it that
> I didn't want it to use virtual desktop space and then that seemed to
> enable me to "force" the correct resolution - though the mode lines I
> had set where auto generated (I don't know enough to start changing
> stuff like that!).
> 
> I'm presuming that the "Hoary" is using gnome, but surely there must
> be something similar in gnome ?????
</snip>

I'll dig around for something like that.  I'm a convert to Gnome from
KDE but the administration tools are rather more disparate than in KDE
and not as detailed.  Gnome2 is more slick though I think.  It has a
glossiness and detail about it that I like.  Feels rather like Mac OSX.

The bad news is that the machine just had a kernel panic (Very Bad
Thing [TM]) in the midst of editing xorg.conf with vi.  (Maybe Linus
Torvalds is an Emacs user??!!??)  Cripes! Never had that before.  I did
recently start tracking the ubuntu backports archive and have noticed a
few stability issues since then on both my laptop and workstation.
Maybe there's more to this resolution thang than meets the eye!!

<snip> 
> p.s. Sorry if thats a pointless suggestion, but it came to mind,
> because the resolution that I was trying to get???? Yup, 1280 X 1024
</snip>

Not pointless at all.  Much appreciated.  I know some bits and pieces
about some bit and pieces - its always good to add in a new bit or
piece!!

Cheers

Ronan
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