beginner questions...

[Justin]

3. Install ntfs-config. It will give you a GUI menu for configuring ntfs-3g.

4. I'm not sure about this one. You should be able to have both installed
via apt/get/Synaptic, but X will only allow you to have one or the other
configured and won't switch dynamically. One solution would be to just use
the vesa driver, but it won't perform as well.

5. Well, as you pointed out, booting the same OS install on multiple
computers is really not very common. While most devices will simply hotplug,
allowing for far more portability than Windows (which freaks out if booted
in an alien computer), X kind of seems to be an exception. As far as
gdesklets specifically, well, I don't use it, but I'm sure there are others
here that do. :)

On 7/28/07, Naja Melan <najamelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> im just migrating from windows. I tried kubuntu before, but found that
> unworkable. Now i got ubuntu studio, and am really happy with it. Im very
> positively surprised by its userfriendlyness....
>
> Im especially amazed with how much i have been able to sort out and set up
> in only two days by looking things up on the net. However, there are some
> things i don't know where to look up.
>
> I have a rather special settup it seems, nevertheless it is almost working
> smooth, and im sure with some tweaking it will be perfect... I have my
> ubuntu installed on a portable usb hard disk ( != usb stick... ). This
> allows me to take it with me everywhere I go, and to get it to a computer
> with internet, as i don't have that at home. There are some minor
> abnormalities though since the hardware always changes:
>
> 1.  and 2. solved by now by further searching
>
> 3. In ubuntu (studio) all disk drives are always mounted automatically. I
> love this approach. Only since everywhere i go, there are ntfs drives, and
> there are no ext3 drivers for win x64, i would like to get my disks to
> always mount with ntfs-3g, and get the writable. It seems you would normally
> do something like that with fstab, but that doesn't seem to make sense since
> every computer has different harddisks and partitions.
>
> I don't know which program arranges the automounting and hotplugging, so i
> don't know how to configure it to use ntfs-3g??
>
> 4. The computers use different graphics cards, thus need different
> drivers. I have Ati card at home Ndvia somewhere else etc... The problem is,
> that when trying to install the ndvia driver, it insists on removing the ati
> one etc...
>
> Is there a way to just install all drivers and have it choose the right
> one?
>
> 5. Different computers have different screen sizes and resolutions. I
> don't get this concept in linux. For example with gdesklets i seem to lose
> the installed desklets from 1280 when i start a computer with 1024. I pick
> them again, and when back on a comp with 1280, i have them twice...
>
> How does linux deal with the resolution?
>
> Thanx very much in advance for any help...
> greets
> naja
>
>
>
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