Re: Version upgrade .. NOT REALLY

[Jie Zou <jzou cisunix unh edu>]

Hi Kalum,

Honestly I must say you are right. I have taken a lot of time for
installation and still got a lot of problems. I would like to try Debians
sometime but not now since I just bought the redhat-6.2 two weeks ago. 

I tried XF86Setup, but after some prompts the system is dead. I reboot and
tried again, the same problem. Then I tried xfconfig. Since I am not
familiar with the configuration, it doesn't work too.

Anyway, thank you so much!
Good night.

Sincerely,
Jie
IOL,UNH
603-868-2983  

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> On  Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jie Zou said the following magic words,
> 
> > Hi Blais,
> > 
> > What's Debians Potato? give me some idea?
> 
> It is the name of Debians latest Linux distribution and the full
> distribution comes on 6 cd's 3 data cd's plus 3 for the source.
> 
> It's extrememly good and has almost any utility you could wish, also you
> can update the utilities using the apt-get command...in short it is the
> best and leaves Redhat really begging...maybe thats why RH hurriedly had
> to release there 7.0 but as you can see from the messages posted here RH
> 7.x is having many problems...and besides RH 7.x uses XFree86 4.0 which
> also is relatively new and lacks support and drivers for a lot of video
> cards.
> 
> So in short if you are interested in getting a easy to install and use
> Linux with almost every utility you could wish for please go for Debians
> potato.
> 
> I am sad to say that Redhat Software is fast becoming the Microsoft of the
> Linux world......and that the RH linux sucks bigtime....I will be getting
> my debian cd's tomorrow morning and the first thing I am going to do is to
> copy my home directories and delete the RH partition and install debian
> linux...but I will continue to stay on this newsgroup as many of the
> queries here are not Redhat specific so that I can still help someone.
>  
> > I have a monitor an it's type is active-matrix color (SXGA) from dell and
> > it's max reselution is 1400*1050 and refresh rate is 60 hz. 
> > 
> > Redhat-6.2 doesn't support this lind of type in installation. So I can't
> > use the X window. What should I do?
> 
> Well run XF86Setup and select "Multi frequency monitor which can do xxxx"
> where xxxx is as close as possible to 1400*1050 at 60hz . Then you can
> select the screen resolution that your monitor supports, ie click on
> 640*480, 800*600, and all other resolutions that you wish.
> 
> Then please you can test the screens pres CTRL-+ (ie CTRL key wioth the
> keypad plus key) to increse the screen res and CTRL - (CRL with keypad
> minus) to decrease the screen res...that way you can check the screens
> out..
>  
> > Give me some help.
> 
> Please tell wether the above works...
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Grendel
> 
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