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
>> >>         >
>> >>
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