On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Monitor Selection
>
>
> > On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > I bought a new 15 " KDS Visual Sensation monitor for my pc.. and now
> cannot
> > > find a matching monitor in Xconfigurator. Can anyone help??
> > >
> > > Video card is s3 Trio3D AGP .
> > >
> > >
> > > Also a question on vnc. With helios, how do set up a vncserver to
> display a KDE
> > > desktop instead of a grey screen with a X. What am i supposed to do with
> that??
> >
> > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xnet#Windows:
> >
> > "By editing '~/.vnc/xsetup' you can set the window manager which is to run
> the
> > display in Windows. Otherwise the 'twm' manager would be started and you
> > really don't want this, believe me ;-). Add a line like exec wmaker & and
> > everything should be fine."
> >
>
> Then perhaps someone at MandrakeSoft will "optimize" this in the next
> release?
Hum, maybe by linking it to xinitrc... But you might not want to use KDE over
an 10MBit network ;-). But's a good idea to keep in mind.
> Other distros also seem to have different monitor selections - why can't
> Mandrake include them all in it's database?
Which distros? Caldera? I've heard about that, but they use a different tool for
X setup and IIRC it's not GPL. But you might want to address your suggestions
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am just a little web-scribbler ;-).
> And as long as I'm on the subject, Helios does not come with support for
> 1.6M or 1.7M floppies (nothing in /dev/), does not come with current
> versions of rawrite.exe or rawwrite.exe and has dropped tomsrtbrt (which
> should have been included as an .img file that could be used with rawrite).
see above.
> All these things would seem to be in the tradition of mandrake, i.e a distro
> "done better".
>
> Still, aside from a few install glitches, 6.1 is a great distro. It just
> needs some fine-tuning rather than loading it up with additional apps.
Yeah, that's *your* opinion. But there are lots of others who say 'What, you
haven't included 'whizbang modulator rampage v4'? It's a narrow path. There are
lots of amazing apps out there.
> Mandrakeuser.org is becoming a very useful web site. I like what I see
> there: concise and well-presented. I hope to make a few contributions
> myself.
I hope this, too ;-).
> Hoyt
Regards
tom
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