pablo2525
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Re: Xorg, nvidia, overscan and other questions...
said by Boogeyman  :What does the +0+0 in something like "Option "metamodes" "DFP: 1600x1024 +1280 +0+0"" mean? It's the lower left coordinate of your display: 0,0
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| said by pablo2525 :said by Boogeyman :What does the +0+0 in something like "Option "metamodes" "DFP: 1600x1024 +1280 +0+0"" mean? It's the lower left coordinate of your display: 0,0 Thanks 
So if I did -5-5 it would move the screen 5px down and to the left and vise-versa if I do +?
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pablo2525
join:2003-06-23 | Experiment! Best way to learn. |
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| Heh, I experimented too much. I cant get any nvidia drivers to load now.
I tried removing evrything associated with nvidia from the package manager, got it to boot to the defualt driver at 800x600, but when I tried to reinstall the nvidia drivers it always tells me theres a problem and it will have to revert to safe graphics mode. At least I think thats what its saying, the fonts are so squished its hard to read.
I'm booted into windows now and when I try to use utorrent to dl linux mint, about 2 minutes in, the pc blue screens and reboots. Its just not my day.
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pablo2525
join:2003-06-23 | Oh boy ... I wish I could help you ... I use openSUSE 11.1 and I download the nVidia drivers from their website, compile them and I'm done. It's not too painful to re-install them when the kernel is upgraded.
Good luck! |
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| I just shrank my windows partition to ~130gb and I'm gonna split the rest into 20gb chunks and try a few different distros and see what works best with my hardware.
I downloaded:
Linux Mint
SimplyMEPIS
PC-BSD
and the latest alpha of ubuntu to maybe try on a 10gb partition.
The reason the windows partition is so big and the linux ones are small is because, well, windows is bloated to all hell. I barely have anything installed right now and it already takes up 60gb. My ubuntu install which had everything I would need to use installed only took up about 10gb. All my media is on my ubuntu server box.
Any other distro suggestions?
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pablo2525
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| Hi,
I think you have quite the list of distro's already. Within the past few months, I test-drove kubuntu (latest, I can't recall the version) and openSUSE 11.1 For me, openSUSE 11.1 still works best.
As an example, my laptop has two batteries, on kubuntu, `kpowersave' doesn't detect them. openSUSE does and what's neat is it detects when I swap in/out the second battery (it's the CD/DVD module bay).
Personally, I wouldn't get to hung up on a distro, they all have warts and shiny parts. Pick the one which works best for your needs. 
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| I just installed SUSE and really like the new KDE interface except for the damn font problems. With the default drivers theres no overscan and I can get 1280x720 full screen, but the fonts are too small and when I make them bigger, certain menu items become so large that they are unreadable.
Doing the update thing now and hopefully can get the nvidia drivers through the package manager after the update.... reboot time...
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pablo2525
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| Hi,
fonts are always a pain in the neck.
I'm very particular about my fonts so if you need a hand, let me know. For non-proportional fonts, I've installed `sgi-fonts' For super nice small font support, I have `MicrosoftFonts' installed - I use tahoma. Some people might break out in hives to co-mingle Linux and Microsoft but I pick the best-of-breed.  I have a job to do and I want to get it done.
btw, I'm not very keen on KDE 4.x so I'm still on KDE 3.x - you might want to continue with KDE 3.x
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said by Boogeyman :I just installed SUSE and really like the new KDE interface except for the damn font problems. With the default drivers theres no overscan and I can get 1280x720 full screen, but the fonts are too small and when I make them bigger, certain menu items become so large that they are unreadable. Doing the update thing now and hopefully can get the nvidia drivers through the package manager after the update.... reboot time... Dude, use Fedora 10 instead of SUSE. OpenSUSE is my least favorite distro (partly because they are in bed with M$ and partly because it is so bloated).
Fedora 10 has a KDE edition, which is what I use. It comes with KDE 4.1, but once you install it and update it (you will probably have like 250 packages to update), KDE 4.2 installs automatically and works perfectly.
I was once a KDE 4 hater, but now that KDE 4.2 is out, it has improved drastically over the old 4.0 and 4.1. It simply blows Gnome out of the water. It's no contest.
If you don't mind Gnome, then definitely use Linux Mint. It is by far the easiest distro out of the box. It comes with all the multimedia codecs (flash, etc.) pre-installed and the video driver should be a simple one-click install.
Stay away from the BSD's and Solaris. They are really cool, yes, but they are still not 100% ready for the casual desktop user. Linux has them beat handily in the desktop department. Once you become a Linux guru, then is the time to experiment with the BSD's and OpenSolaris for kicks and grins.
P.S. I've been meaning to make a trip to Jimmy's in Madison but have been too busy. And, damn, I love that Thai restaurant, Suran or whatever it's called. |
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| I'm torn here. KDE was the first linux environment I had experience with and 4.x looks so nice and I like having a GUI for most of the options I use. But the inability to resize windows correctly is annoying the crap out of me still. (If I shrink a window, some of the drop down menus disapear). Gnome in Ubuntu was easy to use and looked good enoguh, but the options interfaces could get a little confusing.
I've got 3 20gb partitions, 1 30gb partition and a 9gb to try different distros on. I figure I'll use the 30 as the main and play around with the others untill I can find a distro that works for me.
I've tried a BSD flavor once, and I agree its not for noobs such as myself. But as long as I got at least one working OS on this machine, why not play around a little.
I'll grab a copy of Fedora next day I get time to play and give it a shot.
I'm still new to the area, just moved here in august, and I dont think I've even been out to Madison yet.
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I think I have to give up on my multi distro idea. Right now Ubuntu is the only distro that is usable without a ton of tweeking. Anything with KDE by defualt has fonts too small to read to follow the prompts for install, and half of the distros just give me a blank screen instead of a gui install. I can alt+f2 or ctrl+alt+f2 back to the cli but the gui wont show up. Ubuntu had the same problem untill I told it to boot into "Safe Graphics" in boot options.
Maybe after I get a better tv to use as a monitor I'll try some of the others again.
So I guess I just have to wait for nvidia to allow screen resizing to fix the overscan problem.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I'll probably have some more soon...
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