Hi VastOne,
well I typed in up from terminal and got this

Hit:1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package from
E: Unable to locate package terminal

up from didn't work in root terminal

I also managed to get onto VSIDO root and it said it couldn't find smxi and neither could it find it when i cd to root gordon so now I am completely lost and don't know what to try next. help required please
cheers Gordon[/code]

Quote from: Gordon on March 30, 2024, 10:44:47 AMHi Folks,
Me again, i'm having trouble with my screen resolution. I usually use smxi to do this as i have an old graphics card and it installs a nvidia driver. I have tried to use tty1 and tty2 but it says it's controlled by V-Ger and i can't get it to root to use it. How do i get over this problem please 

Are you sure you have sudo rights? In the How To step #9 details how you Give sudo rights to your new user (you).

Best way to test is from any terminal type in up from terminal, hit enter then enter your pw that will upgrade your system to the latest levels and tell us if you have sudo rights.

What you are seeing in tty1 &  tty2 (and all tty's) is just a tty label that I have set up.. It does not mean that V-ger has any control, it is just a label. So from tty1 you should be able to log in as you and run sudo smxi or login as root and run it on tty1. You also have to install smxi if you have not done so already as it is not something installed on VSIDO

Hi Folks,
Me again, i'm having trouble with my screen resolution. I usually use smxi to do this as i have an old graphics card and it installs a nvidia driver. I have tried to use tty1 and tty2 but it says it's controlled by V-Ger and i can't get it to root to use it. How do i get over this problem please 

Hi PackRat.

Thanks for that. I've managed to do it after several attempts but all is well now. I've even managed to change my root password to the correct on now as well.

 big thanks to VastOne and PackRat for all their time an help

Cheers Gordon

Quote from: Gordon on March 28, 2024, 12:39:57 PMHi VastOne,

Sorry it's been a while but not been around.
I typed in what you said and got the results that you said i would get. the problem is that that is a US keyboard layout not a UK keyboard layout. anyway  now going to search and try to find out how to change the keyboard layout. My keyboard is a Microsoft wireless comfort keyboard 5000 so here goes

Cheers Gordon

As root:

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
First screen is a list of keyboards - Generic 105-key PC is most likely selected. This list is what Debian detects as attached. (correlates to XKBMODEL="pc105")

Select OK, the next screen is the configured layout; English US is default. Scroll down and select "Other"
The available layouts list comes up. English (UK) will be available (or whatever language you need).

Once you make your selection and return to the console, restart the keyboard service (as root):

service keyboard-setup restart
You should have, a English (UK) keyboard setup. If not, you may need to reboot.

Debian Wiki Keyboard

Hi VastOne,

Sorry it's been a while but not been around.
I typed in what you said and got the results that you said i would get. the problem is that that is a US keyboard layout not a UK keyboard layout. anyway  now going to search and try to find out how to change the keyboard layout. My keyboard is a Microsoft wireless comfort keyboard 5000 so here goes

Cheers Gordon

dual booting on the laptop

Standard English keyboard layout is what is the default

You can also run the following from terminal to show you the layout

cat /etc/default/keyboard
It should show you the following

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

So... Gentoo with i3, cause why not!

This was fun to play with again. 
Gentoo I mean, this time no conky was hurt in the progress

Hi VastOne,
YIPEE.
I'm at last on VSIDO again. It appears that I was only doing one thing wrong with adduser and that was that I was logged in as root and using sudo as well. I dropped sudo and all is well.
Thanks for all your help.
Got another problem now, how do I change the keyboard layout as I have no idea which layout it is using and that going to cause me problems with all my passwords, it's probable the reason that I can't  log on to the  website on my computer.
Cheers Gordon