[NBLUG/talk] Kubuntu resets screen resolution to 640x480 after restart

[Lincoln Peters]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Andrew <argonaut at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> It was the second command. The "xorg" package is just a
> metapackage. It doesn't do anything except depend on other
> packages (notably "xserver-xorg").
>
> Running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" is The Debian Way to
> configure the X Server. It asks you a number of questions about
> your hardware and preferences (for example, screen resolution,
> keyboard layout, etc.) and produces an xorg.conf file (the old
> config will be moved to a backup file). The xorg.conf file can
> still be tweaked by hand, but using dpkg-reconfigure helps to
> avoid human mistakes.
[snip]

Got it.  Thanks.

> Returning to the subject of dynamic DNS, be aware that the
> DDNS clients built into some routers (mine included) will send
> an update only if they detect a change in the external IP
> address. This is a problem if (1) your address rarely changes
> (mine has changed once in two and a half years with Sonic.net)
> and (2) you have a free dynamic DNS account that expires if not
> updated regularly. Rather than use the ineffective client in my
> router, I run ipcheck.py ( http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net ) on
> an internal machine. It scrapes my router's status page to get
> the external IP address and sends an update to DynDNS.org if the
> address has changed OR if it's been 25 days or more since the
> last update. So my DynDNS account is always kept current.

The router doesn't have dynamic DNS support built-in.  I installed
ddclient on their computer and configured it to poll the router for
its IP address as needed (it's an older LinkSys and ddclient knows how
to talk to it).


-- 
Lincoln Peters
<anfrind at gmail.com>