Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 5:25 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: I strongly object to that. The debconf actually only cover the basics, even my wacom tablet needs manual editing (which is neither unusual nor a weird resolution). Additional,

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-29 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Sunday 29 January 2006 6:26 am, Bruce Sass wrote: Of course. However, a monitor that only does 1280x1024, graphics tablets, and dual monitors all qualify as unusual or weird for a typical desktop, imo. Well, that's probably debatable these days. I'd say single-resolution LCDs are the

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Richard Wegner wrote: Hi there, I recently had Debian 3.1 unstable version on my system, but my X windows kept on going bad. I did some diagnostics and found out that my video card was one of those that it didn't really like that much. What I am wondering is for some

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-28 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 23:11 schrieb Bruce Sass: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg For a typical desktop box, it shouldn't be necessary to manually edit X's configs unless you are doing something unusual or want to support weird resolutions. Generally, manually tweaking a config file

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-28 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 28 January 2006 18:25, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Additional, two monitors might need that too. I have never had a choice offered to me using either XFree86 or Xorg for setting up a second video card/monitor during the configuration of X in Debian so you could change that might to a

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Saturday 28 January 2006 5:25 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: I strongly object to that. The debconf actually only cover the basics, even my wacom tablet needs manual editing (which is neither unusual nor a weird resolution). Additional, two monitors might need that too. Second that. I had the

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 27 January 2006 13:59, Richard Wegner wrote: Hi there, I recently had Debian 3.1 unstable version on my system, but my X windows kept on going bad. I did some diagnostics and found out that my video card was one of those that it didn't really like that much. What I am wondering