2007 Oct 02 - Tue

KDE / X-Windows Screen Resolution Adjustment

I have a laptop that has 1920 x 1200 resolution on it. The default VESA drivers don't like that resolution. After finding out the type of video card, I was able to use the following command to update the card type and resolution:

dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

I am now running at full resolution on the laptop.

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Installing Eclipse C++ Development Environment

The Eclipse C++ Development Environment is a Java based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). On Debian, it is a 'non-free' install. As such, the file /etc/apt/sources.list needs to have the word 'non-free' tacked on to the end of the deb and deb-src lines.

The command 'apt-get update' then needs to be run to update its lists.

The Java runtime environment can then be downloaded with 'apt-get install sun-java-jre'.

The downloaded Eclipse C++ Development Environment can be expanded. Within the expanded directory is a executable file called 'eclipse'. Start it and the environment is up and running. Dead easy.

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