[Sussex] Mageia 2 [Was: August Moot attendance]

[Fay Zee]

Hi Desmond,

On 2 September 2012 17:28, Desmond Armstrong  wrote:
> I am actually quite impressed with Gnome 3. It is quite easy to find
your
> way around.
>
> From Mageia 2 perspective which is Gnome 3 version 3.4 I am very
happy with
> it and I would encourage you to give it a whirl.

The desktop on Mageia 2, released May 2012, which I installed from
your disk, feels to me quite different from the one I looked at
Thursday night, which was Ubuntu 11.10 LXF Remix with Gnome 3.

Although I really love Debian Squeeze (and before that, Lenny, and
before that, Sarge) I do like the Mageia 2 desktop for the fact that I
can have the more recent version of Inkscape and Blender and so on.

The one drawback at the moment is that it isn't filling up the whole
of my laptop's wide screen, plus the resolution setting is currently
too low. The Graphics Server screen in the Control Center's Hardware
section doesn't offer much help with this. The best res is 832x624.
This contrasts with the automatic recognition in the Ubuntu 11.10 LXF
Remix referred to above. That OS gives me 1280 x 800 (16:10).
Unfortunately it doesn't show the refresh rates it is using. Running
lshw -C doesn't show them either. Running xrandr gives me 60.0*+ for
1280 x 800, whatever *+ denotes. But I haven't found xorg.conf and am
unsure how to progress. Hopefully I can get help with this on
Saturday.

The laptop is a Toshiba Tecra R10-112
Display - 14" LED backlight 1280 x 800 / WXGA
Graphics - Intel GMA 4500MHD
Specs: http://uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/laptops/TOYA0670S

 Best Regards,
Fay
East Grinstead Linux User Group
www.eglug.org.uk


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