Wow - I might have to bug you some time about setting up phone servers.
I was thinking of setting one up for home :-) Maybe a quick talk?
-Dafydd
On 03/23/2011 09:09 AM, Royce Souther wrote:
I tried to avoid xrandr for many years even stuck with an older distro
because everything new was switching to xrandr. The problem is that
xrandr has a size limitation that would not let me use my four 19inch
monitors all as one desktop, only xinerama could do that because my
desktop was 5120x1024. In the end I just gave up and traded my four
19inch monitors for two 24inch ones. Now I have 3D desktop with
rotating cube on an okay desktop size of 3840x1200. It is cool but I
don't think I like it much, most of the time I turn 3D desktop off. It
tends to mess up many productivity applications.
What are your passions in GNU/Linux?
I have never been passionate about the new toys that come with the
latest distro of Linux. I am more of a person that is passionate about
something new I can learn. At last count I could program in 20
different languages on six different operating systems (counting all
versions of Linux as just one). I write code, I design circuit boards,
I develop embedded systems, I build telephone servers, web servers and
databases. All of these things I do because Linux distro's give me the
tools and encourage me to use them.
Some things I never do, I never ever clean viruses out of computers,
tell people to reboot Windows or spend sleepless nights awake and
panicking because the Microsoft servers are going to die any day now
and there is nothing I can do about it. That is the sate I was in back
in 1998, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I had panic
attacks that caused my whole body to shake violently, so bad that I
had to go to the hospital emergency room. In a Microsoft world I was a
worthless consumer who's only purpose for existence was to continue to
pay for all eternity for broken promises. I was so powerless in a
Microsoft world that I considered getting out of the computer
business, maybe I would have gone to work in construction, anyplace
that did not have something to do with computers. I could just be one
of the other mindless zombies that when Windows crashes I take a
coffee break and wait for the stressed out computer repair guy to fix
it. Feckless and ignorant to the decay of a failed society where
stupidity is the most valued asset of your customers.
When I think about it I can truly say that Linux saved my life. With
Linux I know that nothing is beyond my abilities, everything has a
solution and the system is designed to help me find it.
What am I passionate about? The freedom, freedom to live, freedom to
learn and the freedom to make my own choices as to what is best for me.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca
<mailto:gus...@meganerd.ca>> wrote:
You should be using xrandr to manage your screens by now anyway.
Unless you are running an ancient version of Ubuntu or Debian (your
use of aptitude indicates a Debian or derivative). Chances are xrandr
is already installed as is some sort of GUI front end.
I used to be pretty good at the nVidia stuff, but their proprietary
modules did not play nice in a real time kernel, pretty much a deal
breaker for me. At the very least I need very low latency and nVidia
was simply not stable. I use a different graphics card or the 2d only
driver, and my problems go away.
Anyway, look into xrandr magic command line incantations, whenever I
am stuck this is where I go to (really nice to ssh in to a box and
resize/change display options on the fly).
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Mel Walters <melwalt...@telus.net
<mailto:melwalt...@telus.net>> wrote:
> I have had very much the same experience lately, most everything
just
> works. I wanted to get 3D acceleration installed plus dual
monitor setup
> with two video cards [GeForce 8800 GT]. There were many choices
to make,
> but I choose:
>
> aptitude -r install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-settings
>
> so aptitude could look after it in an ongoing basis (no manual
nvidia
> driver update installs)
> Configuration mostly OK, But.....
>
> The GUI nvidia-settings would not behave for me though. When I
run it,
> it wants to change things to the way I do not want.
>
> If I was a guru or had the time, I could figure out how to make
a script
> to make my two nvidia cards and two monitors set up just the way
I want
> them. But default does not seem to include two monitors, 3D, objects
> movable between screens.
>
> I did an Xinerama screen of 3940x1080 composed of
> two 3D accelerated 1920x1080 TwinView screens, but I think it
should be
> setup better still.
>
> Does this boil down to lack of support from Nvidia for their program
> nvidia-settings?
>
> Any NVidia/Linux experts in the group who are into Twin View?
>
> Mel
>
> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:42 -0600, Dafydd Crosby wrote:
>> I tried it out of frustration after dealing with Windows 98 :-P
>>
>> A lot of Linux just works for me, the only problems I have
these days
>> are generally problems of configuration. The whole codec matter
is a
>> headache, but things like FLAC have given me hope.
>>
>> -Dafydd
>>
>> On 03/17/2011 12:27 PM, Mel Walters wrote:
>> > I started with Yggdrasil Computing in 1995. It included the
stable
>> > Linux 1.2.13 kernel. Exploring new distribution's as they
came along,
>> > I was looking for a best fit.
>> >
>> > A friend of mine showed me his Debian system and I was
impressed how
>> > easily he maintained it. That was the point I ended up
gravitating
>> > towards Debian, and Debian derivatives.
>> >
>> > For me, Linux and the programs it come with (GNU) have to be
complex
>> > enough to be interesting and simple enough to use. Good
design should
>> > reduce the difficulty of the complex.
>> >
>> > Why did you try it out?
>> > What works for you? What can you see as a hindrance?
>> >
>> > Mel
>>
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