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In WinXP i run 1024x768, but after loading FC6 my max is 800x600 - Forums Linux

In WinXP i run 1024x768, but after loading FC6 my max is 800x600

Posted: 04 Nov 2006 09:44 PM PST

here are the relevant sections from xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

I am running Fedora Core 6. I am a linux newb. What else can i
provide?

Aioanei Rares wrote: 

install TFTP server question

Posted: 04 Nov 2006 02:47 PM PST

Michael Heiming wrote:
 

Or even easier:

chkconfig tftp on
service xinetd reload


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Xinerama + Radeon

Posted: 04 Nov 2006 08:22 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup colin353 <com>: 

Glad to hear!
 
 
 
 

You didn't mentioned you had compiled your kernel on your own,
and modified those settings, the option should be set to "m" per
default in any distro kernel.

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Posted: 02 Nov 2006 12:03 PM PST

christian gruber wrote:
 

Hmm... DOS filesystem. Wird es auch als solches gemounted?

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Is Knoppix 4.0.2 compatible with SATA HDD's? Is the current version, 5.0.1?

Posted: 01 Nov 2006 06:45 PM PST

In article <home.invalid>,
com (Bit Twister) writes:
 

I had the same problem putting Slackware 10.2 on a new box. It would
actually boot, but got a kernel panic soon afterwards when it failed
to recognize the drive when it came time to actually mount things.
I've seen mention of things like mkinitrd, but rather than try to
figure it all out, I cheated - I dropped in a 4-gig IDE drive that
I had lying around, and installed onto that. Once Slackware boots
and gets itself organized, it figures out how to mount partitions on
the SATA drive, where I keep a generous /usr/local and a huge /home.

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File manager?

Posted: 01 Nov 2006 03:35 PM PST

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:00:09 +0000, Leo wrote:
 

That gets you the root File Manager, not the user one.

On my FC5 system the users file manager is not there, you have to launch
konqueror and goto settings->load view file->file management.

I have not found a way to lauch konqueror in file managemant mode from a
"link to application" to set it myself on the desktop.

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LABEL for swap partition.

Posted: 01 Nov 2006 09:46 AM PST

On 1 Nov 2006 09:46:54 -0800, com wrote:
 

You can label it with the mkswap command:

mkswap -L label /dev/hdxx

see: man mkswap

Mektub

Switching HDs, preserving "bootability"

Posted: 01 Nov 2006 08:57 AM PST

On 1 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, Dan wrote:
 

OK
 

In theory, there is a performance hit by having separate partitions
because everything can be dumped around one physical range of cylinders
on a single partition, while the heads would have further to travel to
reach the partition that has what you are reading/writing to. How
important this might be depends solely on your system usage, and what
you've got stashed on the disk.

There is major benefit to having /home on a separate partition. Most
people never back up (or even have the capability to back up) their disks
and when they install a new distribution - /home is toast if it's on the
same partition as the rest of the stuff. Here are two mini-howtos that
should be on your system that discuss this and other concepts. The first
is a bit dated.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 39240 May 3 2001 Install-Strategies
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 68659 Jan 4 2006 Partition
 

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 23639 Aug 21 2000 Hard-Disk-Upgrade

Like Hector, I'm not using GRUB, but that's also got to be changed to
point to the new locations, etc. FREE CLUE: Make sure you have a
rescue capability - either a bootable CD (such as the rescue CD that
comes with some distributions) or bootable floppy. "Bad stuff happens."

Old guy

How to install a Linux Kernel Source in Fedora Core 6?

Posted: 01 Nov 2006 06:50 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup com <com>: 

[ top posting fixed ]
 
[..]
 

Why would you?

From the package description:

Summary : Development package for building kernel modules to
match the kernel.

Description : This package provides kernel headers and makefiles
sufficient to build modules against the kernel package.

It contains what you asked for, needed kernel headers/makefiles
to enable to build kernel modules, which is what you asked for.

Unsure why you would expect something on the boot screen?

Try 'rpm -qil <package-name>' to get information and a list of
files, then go ahead and try building your modules, it should
pick up the needed headers. You installed it with 'rpm -i ...'
already.

Good luck

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XP and Ubuntu bootloader issue

Posted: 31 Oct 2006 04:58 PM PST

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:58:41 -0800, Andrew wrote:
 

Personally, I think you're confused about a few things, so starting at the
basics;

You have two hard drives, sda, and sdb. If each drive has a single
partition, the partitions will be sda1, and sdb1. Windows will happily
install to a single primary partition, as it uses a swap file for memory
swapping. Linux can do that too, but it is more common to have a swap
partition in addition to the / partition. The swap partition can be either
before, or after, the / partition. It helps to know the actual layout of
your disks. From a Ubuntu terminal, the command "sudo fdisk -l" (lower
case L) without the quotes, will show all the disk partitions.

Grub normally installs in the MBR, by default, but it is possible to
install it on any partition, if your plan is to chain-load from another
boot loader. This is not the usual case with someone new to Linux, so
until instructed otherwise, I'll assume that grub is actually installed in
the MBR of sda. With Windows on sdb1, and with the BIOS set to boot from
sda, you say you can boot Ubuntu, so do that.

As root, edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst, by adding the following;

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

This should give you a choice, in your grub start-up menu, between Ubuntu
and Windows. Most likely, there is already an entry at the top of your
menu.lst setting the default to Ubuntu, in the following form;

default 0
timeout 15

The above sets the default to the first entry that starts with "title",
and boots that entry after 15 seconds, if another selection is not made.
It is common to have more than one entry for each Linux installation with
titles like failsafe, or nofb, so if you wanted to set Windows as the
default, and it was the fourth entry, you would set the default to 3.
(grub always counts from 0)

If the above does not work, come back and tell us what the actual results
were.

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File manager for Kubuntu?

Posted: 31 Oct 2006 12:34 PM PST

"***** charles" <com> writes:
 

yes,
dired emacs module

regards,

fg