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| Written by Sam Varghese | |
| Tuesday, 13 November 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 In some other cases, I've got a somewhat skewed screen at 1280 x 1024 - but again manual tweaking has been possible. And in every case, I've used the open source nv driver for this graphics card (apart from Vista, of course). It's never been a problem. Until I decided to have a look at Fedora. What is so special about the way Fedora has organised its Xorg server set-up? For the life of me, I can't figure out what it is. Going into a non-graphical mode, I have tried to edit the xorg-conf file, using attributes from the working one I have on my Debian workstation. But this exercise has proved to be futile. The "out of range" message just does not go away. Mind you, I've never failed to get a working X configuration file in any of my experiments with Linux - except once, with Debian 2.0. That was a long, long time ago. I've tried the Gnome live CD and the KDE Live CD issued with Fedora Core 8 and also the full DVD of this version. Prior to that, I tried version 7. But all to no avail. In the course of these attempts. I've also noticed some of the marketing spiel that has been issued along with Fedora 8. For instance, there is the bit about Fedora being the second distribution with a live CD after Ubuntu. This is rubbish; the first live CD I used came with Slackware 7.0 in the year 2000. And comparison with the Ubuntu live CD is deceptive for the Ubuntu ones do work. Then there's the bit about Fedora 8 allowing others to build their own Linux products using it as a foundation. Debian has allowed this for as long as I can remember - indeed, Ubuntu is built on the Debian foundation. There are a number of other features listed: automatic detection and installation of printers, a screen background that changes colours as the day wears on (wish I could see that one), improved audio, and so on. I'm guessing that in the rush to get these advanced features into version 8, the developers may well have forgotten that one needs basic features like a graphical desktop to enjoy most of them. Do pardon me if I happen to be wrong.
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