Feisty screen resolution problem

[Rachael Agnew]

I'm just going to forget about adjusting the Feisty screen resolution. It's
such a minimal tweak; I can live with it. Thanks again.
Rachael


On 5/5/07, Rachael Agnew <rachael.agnew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you everyone who has responded to my plea for help with Feisty
> resolution!
>
> I use sudo, su got me nowhere, but I will try that again within root.  I
> am the only user -- perhaps somewhere in the installation I didn't make that
> clear...??? (I apparently have no permission to use /etc/... either, when I
> try to get into it without being on the terminal screen.)  Am I expected to
> personalize root somehow, with my username? I am root and I use the password
> when requested... what else does this os want? grrr
>
> I will go through everything (meaning all suggestions) one more time. and
> oh yeah, I started out checking the ubuntu lists for resolution of my
> resolution problem and that's when I turned to asking you all, because
> nothing was working.
>
> I appreciate all the help, anyhow.  It's made me learn more about ubuntu,
> but I still have huge holes in my understanding.  If anyone else has
> suggestions please feel welcome to contribute. I haven't given up yet.  Also
> if anyone is able to meet me at the Linuxcaffe  to fix this, if I still
> haven't straightened  it out by Monday, let me know. I'll buy you caffe in
> exchange for your expertise.
>
> Ciao.
> Rachael
>
>
>
> On 5/4/07, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/4/07, Jack Bowling <jbinpg at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:49:25PM -0400, Alfred wrote:
> > >
> > > At the risk of coming across as some PAF (Pedantic Old Fart), the "su"
> >
> > > command actually started life as an abbreviation for "substitute user"
> > > not "super user". But since most *nixes adopted the role of root as
> > > Supreme Commander, its original meaning was subsumed. It still has all
> > its original powers: you can "su" to whatever user is on your system as long
> > as you know their passwords.
> >
> >
> > As only a half-old-fart, I didn't the meaning of "su" came from
> > "substitute".  Thanks for this!
> >
> > I use su quite regularly to login into other accounts on the system:
> > so something like "su - daniel" to login into the user account
> > "daniel", if I know the password of that account.
> >
> > If you don't know that password of that account, and you have
> > administrator privileges on that computer, you can get into a
> > super-user prompt first ("sudo -i"), then do the "su - daniel" trick.
> > Doing a su from within root  will not ask you for a password for the
> > accounts you are trying to access.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Robitaille
> >
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> >
>
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