Ubuntu: Relationship counsellor required

[cybershot]

Status update: It lives.

I re ran the install scripts for the drivers and it seems to have worked, then again it might have just gone away on it's own. I have no idea. The updates were courtesy of the auto update tool, I had run it the day before and it had pulled down a couple of updates for the packages I got in 9.04.

The Display is still messing me about and telling me it cannot save the file that's there and when I boot the first screen the HDTV sees is the log in one, pressing esc before that shows a blank screen with a "out of range" message. Once it does get to the loading screen it does switch to 1024x768 or something close and works fine, with the caveat that the text size is about 1 or 2 pt, completely unreadable, until I've logged onto the desktop.

As for going away from Linux, i'd rather not. Windows isn't built for what I want this to do.

I have a similar issue in the fact my pc is hooked up to my 32" tv. When i first change the res and reboot the login screen only shows a quarter of the screen but user up the whole display of my tv. To fix i had to change the screen res then logout. It now shows the whole of the login screen but not at the res i changed to. To something massive and i also cannot read the text i am tying. I expect its because the display settings are per user and i cant be bothered to fix it just for the login screen as its not exactly a show stopper.

 

[stowpirate]

Maybe the key to this problem was sudo. If you are using a nvidia card you need to install the hardware driver and use the following command to be able to save changes.

sudo nvidia-settings

 

[Jonti]

... if only I could remember how to do X windows or whatever it is that gets me a GUI...

xdmcp, it's disappointingly easy, I'm afraid

On the host machine, System -> Administration -> Login Window
Set the 'remote' style to be same as local (actually, anything but 'disabled') and reboot.

On the login window of the client machine, in the bottom left hand corner is the login options menu. Click on it, chose remote login via xdmcp, and your xdmcp hosts will be displayed. Select one, and click on connect. You'll be presented with your usual login window for that machine.

 

[Jonti]

Yes no maybe and perhaps.

I just ticked yes. Bad ms habits I guess.

To see your software update settings, it's System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories

You might want to switch off everything but security updates, and have that happen automatically.

 

[Meltingpot]

Don't know if it helps, but someone's produced a version of Ubuntu with Myth already built in;

http://www.mythbuntu.org/