Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 24/09/12 10:42, gladelands wrote: Hi all, Has anybody had experience of using nvidia graphics cards with widescreen (1920 x 1024) monitors under Linux? I have downloaded nvidias own driver file but it has to run with X window turned off. Before I try this is there anything that anybody

Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread Simon P Smith
On 24/09/2012 10:42, gladelands wrote: Has anybody had experience of using nvidia graphics cards with widescreen (1920 x 1024) monitors under Linux? I have downloaded nvidias own driver file but it has to run with X window turned off. Before I try this is there anything that anybody knows

Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Don't use the 295.40 version of the official nvidia drivers as they can cause serious graphical corruption and crashes due to a bug, especially on older cards ( reference: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTA4ODc ). I'm running on the beta drivers and those seem to work fine

Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread gladelands
On 24/09/12 11:01, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 24/09/12 10:42, gladelands wrote: Hi all, Has anybody had experience of using nvidia graphics cards with widescreen (1920 x 1024) monitors under Linux? I have downloaded nvidias own driver file but it has to run with X window turned off. Before I

Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread gladelands
On 24/09/12 11:01, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 24/09/12 10:42, gladelands wrote: Hi all, Has anybody had experience of using nvidia graphics cards with widescreen (1920 x 1024) monitors under Linux? I have downloaded nvidias own driver file but it has to run with X window turned off. Before I

Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread Dan Dart
Card - GeForce 8500 GT This is fully compatible with the latest NVIDIA drivers Source: myself :) Dan Dart _ WEB DEVELOPER | SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR | BLOGGER | MUSICIAN http://dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

[Dorset] Linux Magazine back-numbers

2012-09-24 Thread Graeme Gemmill
Would anyone like copies of Linux Magazine? I have back-numbers from December 2008, which will go out in a week's time unless they are wanted. Graeme -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list:

[Dorset] Apache 2.4.2

2012-09-24 Thread Graeme Gemmill
Is there any experience of Apache 2.4 in this area? As part of an upgrade and installation on a new PC, I installed Apache 2.4, but cannot get it to display .cgi files produced by my APC UPS that is managed by apcupsd version 3.14.8. On an earlier PC, I had Apache 2.2, which displayed the data