Try white on black. Even if that isn't to your liking, it would tell us more about the nature of the failure. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Don't worry about it. It's nothing. -- U.S. Navy Lt. Tyler, Dec. 7, 1941, upon being informed that radar had just picked a large formation of planes heading for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
> 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
