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| Thread ID: 101195 | 2009-07-04 22:10:00 | Screen resolution in Ubuntu 8.0.4 | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 789000 | 2009-07-13 07:17:00 | there are no icons on the desktop whatsoever and I can't see the installation option in any of the menus? any ideas? |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 789001 | 2009-07-13 08:08:00 | Hi Has been an issue with a small amount of hardware from the livecd. Kdesktop crashes. If you go <alt> + <F2>, it will bring up a run dialogue. Type kdesktop and click run. You should get the desktop with all icons present (including the installer). BTW - this only seems to occur sporadically with the live-cd. With the install it's fine. |
Brooko (8444) | ||
| 789002 | 2009-07-13 12:54:00 | It's probably your monitor not being detected I have this problem with one of mine |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 789003 | 2009-07-13 20:09:00 | Ok, was getting the KDE error, but logged in as demo and all worked fine. I have Mepis installed now but haven't touched any drivers as yet. Screen res is 1024x768 at present. Can't change it at this stage. GUI seems sluggish, especially when browsing the web, this is with smooth scrolling on. Will have a play when I have time. any suggestions as to what would be the next best step. cheers, |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 789004 | 2009-07-13 20:44:00 | FF sluggishness could be IPV6 - there are instructions in the Mepis forums on how to disable. Next step - if you like what you're using so far - is to join the Mepis forums (www.mepislovers.org). Put a new thread in "Newbies" section explaining that you are new to Linux and need help installing the 3D drivers. List your card details - and add that you'll step by step help with using sgfxi (very good command line script for installing 3D drivers automatically on Debian installs). You'll find the Mepis forum very user friendly. No question is considered dumb. You may get pointed to the wiki from time to time - but it's not an rtfm situation - it's usually because the answers are there (they'll give direct links). You'll see me there (same pseudo) - and we can take you through next stage. If you search for "disable ipv6" you should get hits on the forum about how to fix it as well. If you find after a while that Mepis is slow (I'm assuming your comp is pretty old?) - then once you have a bit of linux experience, you could try AntiX (a lightweight version of Mepis). Good luck. Welcome to the world of Linux. I'll look for you on ML. |
Brooko (8444) | ||
| 789005 | 2009-07-14 00:55:00 | Thanks for that Brooko, after reading that, I think the old gal mite be a bit long in the tooth, howver having said that, the performance wasn't this bad when using Ubuntu linux. I am going to endeavour with the Linux path, I do enjoy it. Cheers, |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 789006 | 2009-07-18 23:35:00 | Woohoo!!! success!!! After a complete re-install and a little more tinkering, I have finally got the nVidia legacy drivers installed and working. Screen resoltion is now 1280x1024! I had a few issues with KDE not starting after installing the drivers but a quick look on the Mepis Wiki and I was all sorted. I haven't removed IPV6 like before and browsing within Firefox is as cruisy as on my XP box. Just need to sort our network drive mappings from my Server 2K3 box and add a printer and I will be good to go! I also have a problem with my MS wireless keyboard. When I'm in a console and I use the letter "t" the minute I realease the key I get an error message saying " an unknown key has been relased. This only appears to happen when Iim running in full CLI mode, when in the gui everything appears to work fine. It's weird... but something to research on the Mepis forums etc. Thanks again to Brooko for all the great advice and all the other posters as well. Well I'm off to brush up on some penguin. |
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