Ok,,,time to help the newbies

[Insodus]

I have a quadruple boot right now, winME, win2k, winXP, and RH7.1

now, I pretty much considered myself a windows guru... then I hit linux

holy *^&*^%

ok, i can do most things, however, I used Xconfigurator to set up X. but I can't change resolutions. how would I do that??

I got it to work once, but all it did was instead of changeing resis, it just did a virtual desktop so when I move mouse around it moved screen.

then, i tried following the instructions on this site to install my SBLive, but i got all kinds of problems. when i did the rm *dep* , it said no such file. when I did the three make statements, I got all sorts of errors. whats up???

then!... i wanted to install my DLink NIC so I could actually browse the internet. but when I do kernelconf and add eth0, it gives a list of types that look like garbaly gook, how would I get this nic to work?

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Now I know why windows is popular...

it's not that it's too prissy-user-friendly
it just doesn't make things hard ON PURPOSE!

[dj525]

<ctrl>+<alt>+<+> to enlarge screen, <ctrl>+<alt>+<bckspc> to reduce I believe.

[evulish]

Uhh, go into /etc/X11/XF86Config and scroll near the bottom. You'll see some resolutions probably...just change them to something higher...

As for your SBLive....haven't got a clue :)

[dj525]

My apologies, the directions I just gave were for freebsd using xfree86. I'm not sure whether those key combos work the same in rh.

[sapient]

there are many ways to change your res. one gui is XF86Setup (maybe on your distro)

for your nic you should look at the man pages for ifconfig & route

somting like:
ifconfig etho xxx.xxx.xxx (<< ip address)
route add default xxx.xxx.xxx