Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

James Sinnamon wrote:

> I have an established Red Hat 9.0 system and I am trying to migrate to a 
> Debian/Sarge  system using all the same /home/* subdirectories.  I am 
> simply hoping to have a desktop and display that has the same resolution 
> and roughly the same functionality, to begin with, as I had with RedHat.
>
> 1. Resolution reduced from 1024x768 to 800x600 on 19" monitor.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I am not able to keep the same resolution as I can on my Redhat system.  
> My Debian system only achieves 800x600, whilst my existing 
> RedHat achieves 1024x768.  I can't think of any obvious reason why the 
> resolution can't be the same.
>  
This might just be a matter of settings  (try "dpkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xfree86") or it might be that RH shipped a proprietary video 
driver that you don't have by default in Debian (I'm thinking 
particularly of the Debian "nv" driver as opposed to the proprietary 
nVidia driver).


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Kent