2009/5/22 Ronnie <[email protected]> > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> >> >> 2009/5/21 Ronnie McMaster <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>> >> >> Thanx, I will give it a try as soon as I boot back into it. >> >> >> don't forget to run it as root with gksu >> $ gksu nvidia-settings >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> >> 2009/5/21 Ronnie McMaster <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> I just loaded Debian on my PC and everything seems fine >> other than not being able to set the resolution other than >> 800X600. I am used to having it at 1240X940 (or something >> close to that) but I only get the options for 800x600 and >> 640X480. I have a Lenovo System with NVIDIA cards. My >> other smaller problem is that my Evolution Mail will not >> let me do a set up, it wants to be backed up from a >> location. Please give me some help with these problems. I >> previously had Ubuntu on here and it would let me use the >> NVIDIA drivers. >> >> >> with nvidia-settings, you can resize it >> # aptitude install nvidia-settings >> >> >> -- Regards, >> >> Umarzuki Mochlis >> http://gameornot.net >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Umarzuki Mochlis >> http://gameornot.net >> > I am still having problems trying to load nvidia, please help me. > > ron...@ronnie:~$ gksu aptitude install nvidia-settings > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily > unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another > process using it? > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done W: Could not lock the cache file; this > usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing packages. > Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages > will NOT be preserved! > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily > unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another > process using it? >
try killing apt # pgrep apt | xargs kill -9 -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net
