Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Kent West wrote:

> 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).
Red Hat doesn't do that.



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Cheers
John

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