Re: [MLUG] progress .... ???/

[Larry McDaniel <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > For example, this dual monitor thing.  i have now downloaded Mozilla 
> > 1.5a, and it's still crashing.  And when the screen saver runs a while, 
> > it shuts down X altogether and all the programs that were running too.
>
> That's unusual. Either you somehow have it messed up (possibly through 
> no fault of your own) or you have a hardware problem.. if it's the later 
> a different dist or window enviroment may or may not help.

OK, so maybe I'll stick with RH/Gnome.  If I can't even get dual monitors to work right, I seriously question the wisdom of trying Debian.  However, I do remember that when I had SuSE 8.2 / KDE installed, I didn't have this problem.  I do need to find a way to fix it though, .... I'm about to get tired of it.  (you guys are too probably

Tell me .... when you say that RH and SuSE are for beginners, do you say that basically because they will do things for me that in other distro's I would have to know command line, manual config, etc.?

I don't mind learning ... but I need to know WHAT to learn.  For example, I've done everything I've been told to do and know how to do to fix this dual monitor problem, and it's still a problem.  I don't know what the next step would be.  

The dual head Matrox card I have is quite common, and should work fine.  It did in SuSE and XP, so I don't think it is the issue.  ?????  Should I just scratch it all and do a complete re-install and try it again?  

This is just a wild newbie hunch, but at this point, if I had to say what I thought was the problem, I would probably guess the mgapdesk I downloaded from Matrox has something to do with it.  At any rate, ... I have to wonder, .... how many different things are there that could be causing this.  There surely couldn't be that many, could there???

Also, here's another hint.  Surely this is a clue to something.  Even when Mozilla or whatever is working fine, it WILL NOT load msnbc.com without locking up.  What's up with that???

thanks,
larry


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