Re: [Sheflug] Debian Etch Stable

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lesley

> Talking of nVidia - GIMP 2.2.13 is abysmal on my system (Quadro4
> 900 XGL with LG LCD monitor) to the extent it is unusable for
> anything other than basic photo editing.

Oh.. that's odd.  Was going to get hold of a Samsung 17" flat screen 
but I'm still using a CRT.  My GeForce 5200 nVidia card came from 
www.misco.co.uk at a cost of £19.49 plus postage.....

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=191910&Sku=100780

> Any suggestions on how to improve things?

Dunno... not used many flat screens :)  Should work though.  Can't 
think why you should have a problem.  When you run 'dkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xorg' do you tell it to detect the monitor automatically ?  I 
sometimes find that if you do that then it messes up the xorg.conf.

> And is there a stable Gimp 2.4 out there yet?

http://www.gimp.org/

Looking at the Gimp site there is.  You could download it and build it 
yourself ?   Being the Debian distribution then it's likely that the 
2.4 release will come along when Lenny is released. I've not seen 
anything in Debian backports for Gimp just yet.  Robin Rowe might 
know more.

My own xorg.conf below....

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (randy@juliet2)  Fri Dec 30 21:53:37 
PST 2005

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, 
using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual 
page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades 
*only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the 
xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically 
updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"          
FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "v4l"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "gb"
    Option         "XkbVariant" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Relisys TE770"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 64.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
    Monitor        "Relisys TE770"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864"          
EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864"
    EndSubSection
EndSection



-- 
Richard

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