It's the standard Ubuntu 9.04 Gnome desktop...I futzed around with checking font and background to be sure it was black on white...that's not it.
Nice thing about my new job is that I got Thursdays off now and I could drive this stuff over to the Meetings. It would be interesting to see some experts work this problem. I think this Ubuntu nVidia implementation is buggy, that's all. I note the nVidia download works well under Fedora...or I should say, as far as I got. Brian On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 15:02 -0800, Allen Brown wrote: > What terminal program are you using? > If you don't know, what desktop are you using? > > If it's gnome-terminal, you can change colors. > Menu: edit/current_profile tab: colors > > It used to be (long long ago) you could fix this stuff in > ~/.Xdefaults but evidently that worked too well and everybody > decided to switch to gui based configurations. The result > is that every time you do an install rather than installing > a single file to fix the colors, now you have to go thru > the same stupid menus. Fixing these things in menus can be > very labor intensive. > -- > Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance > for the evil conscience of their parents. ---H.L.Mencken > > > It's not that bad...everything is working in terms of the dual displays > > and OpenGL functionality BUT, like I said, open a terminal and it's > > window is all white. It's working, because I can type in a command and > > it'll execute; I just can't see what I'm typing. > > > > There are other little anomalies in opening a window. Such as the > > update window puts up a window to ask for your password. That's blank > > also, but I can see the mouse cursor change were the password field > > is. > > > > Like I said, I had this all working under Fedora Core 11, I just ran > > into the problem of using suspend...that's another issue entirely. I > > don't need to suspend the system, but I would like to use dual monitors. > > > > I've got an another system with an EN8400GS card waiting for this issue > > to be resolved. If FC 11 will do it, so be it... > > > > Ubuntu has ease of use in a lot of areas. I was hoping to use just one > > distro or the the other. > > > > Brian > > > > > > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:49 -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > >> Is this related to your woes? "CANTFIX" :( > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/111833 > >> > >> I wanted to make sure you've come across > >> http://lunapark6.com/dual-head-configuration-with-different-resolutions-per-screen-linux.html > >> or similar google results... > >> that is, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-7938.html > >> or even http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75149.html > >> (but the glawing .com site they mention does not seem to have the > >> topic any more) > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM, BB <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No, I like Ubuntu...I'm going to do a fresh install and see if > >> it's only > >> the Twinview feature. maybe I'll epoxy over the VGA so I'll > >> stop > >> playing with dual monitors. I don't really need it...like the > >> mountain...it's just there. > >> > >> > >> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 11:42 -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > >> > No likey Ubuntu? Sorry, I don't [yet] have access to any > >> recent > >> > nvidia dual-display hardware (but actually, expect to soon, > >> under > >> > ubuntu studio, a 9500gt whee)... > >> > > >> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, BB <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > I got a much more stable nVidia driver experience on > >> Fedora > >> > 11, with the > >> > official nVidia driver. > >> > > >> > I had it all working under FC 11 then I blew-up my > >> system > >> > playing with > >> > suspend / hibernate. > >> > > >> > I read that Tux on Ice allows the user to suspend. > >> > > >> > Brian > >> > > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > EUGLUG mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> EUGLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> EUGLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
