Corel Linux - X,Y, Screen axis

[nocymbals]

Hi

I am so unbelievabley new to linux and I tried installing Corel Linux however the screen always seems ridiculously tiny.

It only ever shows the top right corner of the screen and I cannot therefore view the screen in its entirity and cannot see the next buttons which install it.

I think it may be to do with the screens axis beng wrong, i was reading some document online which mentioned manually re configering the screen axis but that went over my head.

If anybody understand what im on about then please post back. Any help is much appreciated

Thanks In Advance
Nick

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You have probably got a virtual setting in your XF86Config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config ?) . Something like :

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x480" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 1280 960
EndSubsection

Remove the 'Virtual' line and also delete any Modes that you don't want (too high resolution) so you end up with something like :

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Then restart your X server. If all else fails just run the 'xf86config' tool from a X window or console.

Regards

 

[Guest_imported]

however i was wondering if there is anyway to go about it before i install linux because it does it on the installation and i therefore do not know exactly what the terms and conditions are or what settings im installing and so on.

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
Nick

 

[nocymbals]

however i was wondering if there is anyway to go about it before i install linux because it does it on the installation and i therefore do not know exactly what the terms and conditions are or what settings im installing and so on.

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
Nick

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Hmmmm.. that's a bit tricky. Its also difficult to get any docs on Corel Linux as its no longer produced. The following relates to installing under vmware but does describe whats sounds like the same problem and maybe a workaround -->

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws30_guestos12.html

If that doesn't work see if you can see any options to do a 'text' install and do that.

Regards

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the help.

Would you be able to explain to me what a 'text' install is

 

[actually]

i see what you mean by text install now that i have read the link given.

I think this is exactly the same as my problem so i will try it out and hopefully i can get the little buggar running.

I was wondering if you would be able to explain to me the partion option becuse i would prefer to partion my drive so that it can load windows as well.

thanks agian

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Its difficult to be precise as I can't see the install docs and Corel is one distro I haven't installed either.

However, normally you would install linux in one or more 'ext2' format partitions and also have a 'swap' partition for memory paging. The ext2 partitions can be either primary or logical (within an extended partition) and the only real constraint is that the partition that contains the kernel image (in directory /boot) can be reached by the bios. To be safe that means it should start below 1024 cylinders but thats not an absolute rule if you have a modern PC with extended 13h bios interrupt support. The simplest is probably to make a single ext2 partition somewhere to the 'right' (graphically speaking) of your existing fat or ntfs partition for windows. Set the mount point as '/'. Also create a small (2 times your ram) swap partition right at the end of the drive. If they are logical partitions these would become /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 respectively. If primary partitions, they'd be /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3.

You need to decide on the bootloader situation. If you have NT (or W2K/XP) it is possible to leave that in the master boot record and configure it to chain load the linux loader which would then be placed in the '/' partition - e.g. /dev/hda5 . More normally, you'd let the linux loader (lilo) be written into the master boot record and use that to boot both linux and windows.

The following is for partition magic but may also help -->

http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id1698.html

Regards