i am REALLY thinking about switching back to windows... this is haaard. i just installed linux and how can i upgrade my video drivers? it will only go up to 800*600. In windows, it went up to 1600*1200... and I only need 1024*768. Does anyone know how i can get better drivers??? I have an ATI Rage Mobility M 8mb AGP on Dell Latitude CPx.

Searching ATI Linux drivers on Google, first result:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27

It is only hard when you expect everything to be done for you or answered for you by others. I'm not flaming you, but you have to get to know your system and learn how to solve some problems with Google searches.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf is the file to edit to adjust your resolution. Let us know if you need more help, always willing, but Google is your friend

aactually, i did search google... but thanks anyway. but what about installing firefox? and that file (ect/x11/xorg.config) does not exist...

I will write out a detailed description when I get home, unless someone beats me to it, I have to work :/

The filename starts with a slash -> /etc/X11/xorg.conf

You are using FC4, right?

As promised, first we will look at installing Firefox.

Fedora Core uses a utility (also considered a package manager) called yum. Yum stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified, which is unimportant but an interesting acronym to know.

What yum does is calculate the dependencies and resolves issues and installs the package. Dependencies are things that the software you are installing depends on to run properly. For example, if you get an RSS reader, you will need a couple packages that can interface with the application displaying the RSS topics and the web site it is grabbing them from. The RSS reader is the application you are installing, the dependencies are what it needs to grab the information off the web.

To install Firefox, you would want to run this in the console as root:

yum install firefox

To log in as root, open the terminal (aka console) and type su, which stands for super-user. It will prompt you for the password, after you enter your root password and press enter, you will be a root user. You will know you are 'rooted' because the prompt interface will know have a # where it had a $ before. To log out of root you can press Control+D or type exit.


Now, the /etc/X11/xorg.conf holds the configuration options for the X server you are running. KDE and Gnome and all window managers run an X server underneath them for you to interact with. The X server is responsible for setting the X sessions (current X server you are running) resolution. If you are using KDE, it might actually have an option in its own control panel for setting the resolution, but the xorg.conf is where you will have to have it set. If you need help finding the places to edit this file, just respond in this thread and I can detail it for you.

Good luck!

By the way, the xorg.conf is also where you are going to need to set your ATI driver options up, I'm sure the drivers come with a README file that describes how and where to edit it.

Thanks!

Nathan1993 claims that the file "ect/x11/xorg.conf" doesn't exist.

The linux filesystem is astonishingly sensitive to both spelling and capitalization.
[It's "/etc", not "ect". And it's "X11" not "x11".]

Hard to imagine a system being so picky, huh?

Kim

yes, I know... I went there through the file browser (something like Rox-Filler) and it wasn't there. I found out that I was using an outdated version of FC1, so I upgraded to FC4... but bigger issues have started. Please look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=366077 to help... after this, I am good to go.

What is the x-server? Is it a process that runs and keeps track of everything visual in that it interacts between KDE and the kernal? Just wonder what it really is.