Hmm... A real serial terminal like a VT100? (I actually still own a
vt102. But it is noisy and slow. Mostly it is my footrest these
days.)
Wow, I haven't touched a real VT100 in many years. But I used to
service them, so I remember them quite well. What I meant here is
the ttys that are
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:16:55AM +0200, lee wrote:
Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes:
have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so
with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find
my primary use of the GUI is email,
Nelson Green wrote:
Hi Bob,
You bring up an interesting point. I am running XFCE, and that is because
the limited amount of research I did into window managers told me it was
the simplest complete solution, and I did not have time to learn how to
configure a simple system.
It all depends
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
I used FVWM since somewhere in the early 1990's specifically because
it existed as a fully functional window manager that wasn't changing.
It was stable over decades. Think of the Ubuntu Unity transition, the
KDE 3-4 transition, the GNOME 2-3 transition,
lee wrote:
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
For email I use the 'mutt' mail user agent. It is extremely fast. It
...
I totally agree :) And you're definitely going to love gnus! I've used
mutt for 15 years or so and never could find anything better --- until I
tried gnus. Gnus is
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
lee wrote:
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
For email I use the 'mutt' mail user agent. It is extremely fast. It
...
I totally agree :) And you're definitely going to love gnus! I've used
mutt for 15 years or so and never could find anything
From: l...@yun.yagibdah.de
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:16:55 +0200
Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes:
have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn
Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes:
From: l...@yun.yagibdah.de
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:16:55 +0200
Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes:
have no choice
Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes:
have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so
with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find
my primary use of the GUI is email, the web apps I have to support, and
Guayadeque for my
It is something that Debian made up. It sounds better than saying
large set of heavy and bloated desktop programs. :-) I don't run a
desktop session like GNOME or KDE. Nor LXDE or XFCE either for that
matter. I, and you too apparently, only run the X window system with
a simple window
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink
handle that always points to the currently configured window
manager.
I guess I did say window manager there. That isn't precisely
correct. I should
On 08/29/2012 02:13 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
exec x-session-manager
The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that
always points to the currently configured window manager.
Isn't that 'x-window-manager'?
At least, I don't
Nelson Green wrote:
So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the
simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The
xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create
it with the following
Then for batch mode automated startup I have the following in my X1
startup file.
if xrandr --query | grep -q HDMI;; then
xrandr --auto --output HDMI --right-of HDMI
fi
Hi Bob,
I've almost gotten everything working, but one question remains.
First, I ended up removing the two Quadro
Nelson Green wrote:
So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the
simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The
xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create
it with the following
On 08/29/2012 12:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Nelson Green wrote:
So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the simplest for
you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes
will use it if the
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
exec x-session-manager
The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that
always points to the currently configured window manager.
Isn't that 'x-window-manager'?
At least, I don't have an 'x-session-manager' on my system
Also, consider using a backported kernel (with xorg and mesa) instead a
self-compiled one.
I am certainly willing to try that. Thanks for the suggestion.
I would center first in getting the correct driver to be loaded and then
go with the dual card setup. Good luck then and report back
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:22:26 -0500, Nelson Green wrote:
(...)
Some unordered/random/quick thoughts...
1/ There seems to be a problem with the driver. As you are using
Squeeze with nvidia cards, the driver to load should be either
nouveau or nv but no fbdev. My will guess is that the VGA
Nelson,
Do you have a xorg.conf file or do you let X sort it all out itself? I
noticed from your xrandr posting, that only one resolution is defined
so maybe it's hard coded. I run without a conf file X seems to pull
everything correctly for my hardware. I am still kinda green at
It is possible that the 'nouveau' driver doesn't do dual monitors with the
Quadro
600 cards. i am not to good with these things, looks like it tries 'nouveau,
vesa FB, and fails. ,
I do run a Quadro dual port card, I use the 'nvidia' driver, the xorg drivers
do
not work with my setup.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:36 -0500, Nelson Green wrote:
I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working, and am getting
no where with this, so it is time to request help.
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would like to
have one large screen spread across the
Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I
have is nothing from xrandr nor lxrandr shows an output interface. If
I could get that information I might at least have a place to start.
OK, I feel dumb. I was just setting up a VM, and the output of xrandr is
similar.
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: noela...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:20:04 +
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:36 -0500, Nelson Green wrote:
I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working
From: nelsongree...@hotmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Dual-Monitor help
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:16:03 -0500
Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I
have is nothing from xrandr nor lxrandr
Nelson Green wrote:
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
not be useful to you. But...
I am not sure where to start. One
Nelson,
Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau or
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from apt or
download and installed from Nvidia's site?
Shane
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.comwrote:
Nelson
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:32:59 -0600
Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
From: s...@rasmussenequipment.com
To: nelsongree...@hotmail.com
CC: b...@proulx.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Nelson,
Did you install the driver package? Either xserver
Nelson,
Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
Shane
I sure did:
$ dpkg -l | grep nouveau | cut -d -f 3
libdrm-nouveau1
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.comwrote:
Nelson,
Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
On Thursday 23 August 2012 1:41:37 pm Nelson Green wrote:
Nelson,
Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
Shane
I sure
Good evening all,
I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working, and am getting no where
with this, so it is time to request help.
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would like to have
one large screen spread across the two monitors. The graphics cards are
Nelson Green wrote:
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
not be useful to you. But...
I am not sure where to start. One thing I
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