Now that I have Linux installed to my harddrive

squall14716 · 10-30-2003, 10:54 PM

I am sick of running at 1024x768 when I could be at 1400x1050. So, where in KDE can I change my screen resolution? I remember finding a device manager thing where I could do it once, but I haven't seen it since.

Another question: I go into the "Info Center" and look into the Network Interfaces. I am having a problem with drivers in Windows, so I am wondering if I can find the name and manufacturer of those 2 devices listed in there (eth0 and lo) so I can set the drivers correctly in Windows?

Next: How can I move /home and /usr to a different partition?

Thanks...

Zoombie · 10-30-2003, 11:49 PM

You can use kxconfig (configure->peripherals->display) to configure your resolution, but it would probably be better to edit your configuration file. It's definately good to learn how to edit config files in Linux...you'll be much happier later.

The file you want to edit is probably either XF86Config-4 or just XF86Config in /etc/X11. There's a ton of information about it in the XFree86 manual at www.xfree86.org . You'll want to look for lines that begin with Modes.

squall14716 · 10-31-2003, 05:37 PM

*Bump*

zLinuxz · 11-01-2003, 12:34 AM

that is true, you should first know how to edit the XF86 file first, however later one...to make things faster, you should check out Redhat 9, I just upgraded to it, and damn...it's nice, Sytem Setting>>Display>> select which resolution and color depth, click okay, and you are done!!!, now That's! good.
Just as a suggestion,

zLinuxz

michaelk · 11-01-2003, 07:04 AM

Your network interface works in Knoppix but not windows? I take it you don't know what kind of network card you have?

The console command lspci will list PCI devices including onboard stuff. However, it probably will not tell you model number but chipset info.

BTW lo is not a real hardware device. It is your TCP/IP loopback device so you can run networking applications on the same computer. It is automatically assigned an IP address of 127.0.0.1 and is also known as localhost.

What version of windows are you running? If you do not have TCP/IP installed in windows or you can not in a DOS command prompt window get a response with the command:

ping localhost

then networking is not configured correctly.

squall14716 · 11-01-2003, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by michaelk
Your network interface works in Knoppix but not windows? I take it you don't know what kind of network card you have?

The console command lspci will list PCI devices including onboard stuff. However, it probably will not tell you model number but chipset info.

BTW lo is not a real hardware device. It is your TCP/IP loopback device so you can run networking applications on the same computer. It is automatically assigned an IP address of 127.0.0.1 and is also known as localhost.

What version of windows are you running? If you do not have TCP/IP installed in windows or you can not in a DOS command prompt window get a response with the command:

ping localhost

then networking is not configured correctly.

The network card has a driver set in Windows, but the network still doesn't work. There is a device "Ethernet Contoller" without a driver, but I don't know what to set the driver to. I've tried many different drivers but I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Knoppix autodetected everything and installed it.

squall14716 · 11-01-2003, 03:07 PM

Code:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-1999 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>ping localhost

Pinging LINKNOPERSOCOM [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms

Linux tells me that the Eithernet Controller is "Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)" but Windows 2000 doesn't seem to have a driver for it, so I am going to try to poke around some more.