scott wrote:
>> (E.g., do a default install of Debian. Click the button marked "change 
>> screen resolution". In the window that comes up, the slider to change 
>> resolution is disabled. Yeah, that's really helpful.)
> 
> This was the same in Windows before XP.  I can't remember the number of 
> times I had to go looking for graphics card drivers while not being able 
> to change out of 640x480x8bit resolution...

If you don't have the necessary driver installed, it is impossible to 
drive the card at a higher resolution.

If Debian wasn't finding the correct driver and defaulting to some 
horribly low resolution, I could understand that.

However, the *actual* problem is that Debian is defaulting to a 
resolution larger than my monitor, and I'd like to *reduce* it to, say, 
1024x768 or something. But nooo...

As petty as it sounds, this is the main reason I'm using OpenSUSE. It 
defaults to a sane resolution, and it seems to somehow "know" it's 
running under VMware, so things like mouse integration work out of the box.

(I tried installing VMware tools on Debian, but it can't compile it 
because there's no compiler. So I installed the compiler, but then it 
complained that I don't have the kernel headers. So I installed the 
kernel headers. And then it complained that the kernel was compiled with 
a different compiler than the one I installed. So I looked for the 
version it's asking for... and it's not listed in the Debian package 
database. At this point, I gave up in utter frustration.)

It's a pitty really - Debian starts up much faster than OpenSUSE. (Not 
that "faster" is the same as "fast", mind you...)

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