Now that's the million dollar question. I'll try and find it again.
Simono
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 23:27 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Simon,
Sometimes I could weep.
On the fora, some guy asks why his external screen doesn't work with
Ubuntu, but works straight away with Windows 7.
The
Here you are:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592088
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 09:53 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Now that's the million dollar question. I'll try and find it again.
Simono
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 23:27 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Simon,
Sometimes I could
Sorry - forgot to mention
The driver is still in a non-ready stage according to the developers.
However it seems to be working just fine for me on Fedora.
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Hi,
We need to do some work with our SparcStation again, but this time remotely from
a windows machine. I can telnet to it and carry out the usual shell type
activities, but one or two things we need to do with it, launch a dialog box
under X.
What is the simplest way to do this? I was
Presuming you have X installed on the SparcStation???
If not then this is your first step.
Is there a reason you cannot run a VNC or RDP server on the SparcStation?
If you absolutely _have_ to create an actual remote X instance from the
SparcStation then your going to have to use something
Hi Terry,
We need to do some work with our SparcStation again, but this time
remotely from a windows machine. I can telnet to it and carry out the
usual shell type activities, but one or two things we need to do with
it, launch a dialog box under X.
What is the simplest way to do this?Â
On 11/10/10 14:18, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
What is the simplest way to do this? I was initially advised to try
PuTTY, which was just as good at getting me into a shell as telnet,
but I couldn't get it to give me a graphical environment.
PuTTY won't help the X window from your client on the
On 11 October 2010 at 14:18 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
We need to do some work with our SparcStation again, but this time
remotely from a windows machine. I can telnet to it and carry out the
usual shell type activities, but one or two things we need to do with
it,
hi Andrew,
Hi Ralph,
thanks for that, convert/composite works fine - but gee! it's
noticeably
slow!
hm, just how frequently do you need to change the background on your
root window?
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Hi Terry,
6. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0
7. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY
...
I'm OK until I get to step 6, when I get a 'Command not recognised'
error. Is sending that command via the telnet session causing the
problem or am I
On 11 October 2010 at 15:04 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Terry,
6. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0
7. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY
...
I'm OK until I get to step 6, when I get a 'Command not recognised'
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:20:11AM +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
It would help if Ubuntu moves over to the open source Nvidia driver
(nouveau) which supports multiple monitors better than the Binary
driver from Nvidia.
Except then people would lose their wobbly windows! Ohnoes!!
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On 11 October 2010 at 15:50 John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote:
On 11/10/10 15:23, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
Excellent! A step forward. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be
an export command in the
csh. According to the man page it is available in sh and ksh, but
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:54:37 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke
j...@wormdrive.net wrote:
Except then people would lose their wobbly windows! Ohnoes!!
Gallium shout stop that being a problem ;)
The people that would complain are those trying to game via. wine. The 3D
support is still much slower
On Sunday 10 Oct 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Terry - my Netbook version specified a network connection in the install
dialogue. It automatically hacked the B43 and I had nothing to do once I
pulled the Ethernet out.
AIR the Kubuntu installer didn't say anything about plugging in a network
AIR the Kubuntu installer didn't say anything about plugging in a network
cable, so we had no internet access until I plugged one in after the first
boot-up.
I noticed that the installer takes advantage of network availability if it's
there and does the online updates as part of the
On Monday 11 Oct 2010, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:20:11AM +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
It would help if Ubuntu moves over to the open source Nvidia driver
(nouveau) which supports multiple monitors better than the Binary
driver from Nvidia.
Except then people
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 17:27 +0100, Bryn Jones wrote:
I'm not overly in love with Unity But then I was starting to get
irritable about the previous interface (I've installed Mepis as well
to have a play with)
My netbook squeaked about not finding Unity at all, just once. Now I
have
Hi,
Does anyone know where these are hidden (other than the GUI)... I'm
being driven slowly insane trying to change the polling time where I
can't see the OK button.
Dear Canonical, Lets talk about scaling shall we?.
Cheers
Bryn
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:57:02 +0100, Bryn Jones bryn.jon...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear Canonical, Lets talk about scaling shall we?.
Is this a problem where the resolution is being picked up wrong or where
the window is running off screen.
If your resolution is set wrong then that should be
Sorted it
/stupidmode off
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 21:57 +0100, Bryn Jones wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know where these are hidden (other than the GUI)... I'm
being driven slowly insane trying to change the polling time where I
can't see the OK button.
Dear Canonical, Lets talk about
On 11/10/10 22:10, Bryn Jones wrote:
The resolution is fine
Just the window running off screen
In Ubuntu/Gnome there are some useful mouse + keyboard combinations: Alt
+ left button to move a window, Alt + middle button to resize a window.
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Hi Terry,
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ is one Windows X server,
and I tend to use xclock(1) as a simple test X client. You may want
to make sure it will display OK when sitting at the SparcStation's
screen before using it to test connecting to a remote X server.Â
X is
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