[ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Tanveer Singh
I was running Linux inside virtualbox. Naturally, my choice was gentoo, since I have been a gentoo fan and know my way around pretty much. Based on reviews etc., I decided to try ubuntu. the prime driver was source code compilation issue in gentoo. Every big package takes hours to compile! A big

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread narendra sisodiya
1280x800, like I had in gentoo! Try to adjust refresh rate, Many a time this is the sole cause for fall back of low resolution. I always save my Xconfiguration to my mail account and each time of install fedora, just a download effort is needed. You can fight kubuntu to make it work and save

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread gajendra khanna
Hi source code compilation issue in gentoo. Every big package takes hours to compile! A big headache. true Well I was able to install, and then completely get lost. I understand they have dumbed down everything, but I can't seem to get anything to work. if you don't like the dumbing down try

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, gajendra khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should allow you to do the reconfiguration. If the xorg.conf has the display you want (maybe not the default one) you can change it with the kde utility krandrtray. I did that, its

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, gajendra khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should allow you to do the reconfiguration. If the xorg.conf has the display you want (maybe not the default

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread gajendra khanna
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Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Mehul Ved
I don't want a distro war, but if you're still looking for a distro which you can build as per your choice but avoid major compilation from source, have a look at arch. That is what you might like. It gives you a lot of things to hand configure, it has quite a good amount of packages and at the

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Mani A
Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg-reconfigure xorg, gives me xconfiguration, but I can just set keyboard etc., there. There is no way to set up my display to 1280x800, like I had in gentoo! I can manually try mucking around with xorg.conf, but that breaks things and X itself does not