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Stuck at low resolution: Monitor as well as display adaptor not recognized in Windows Server 2012

We're testing an on-premise Windows Server 2012 (Datacenter) server. It has been installed with the GUI because it's internal, test only - we don't care about the attack surface until we're ready. Problem: When locally/physically logging into the…
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Network-capable small format display?

I am working on a project for per-station messaging and other functions in a warehouse. I don't want the cost of a full computer at each station, so I'm looking for small format hardware that I can push messages to. My first thought was networked…
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Two identical displays, two identical graphics cards, totally different picture quality

UPDATE - Definitely a driver issue. Problem goes away when I uninstall nvidia drivers, comes back when I reinstall them. I'm having a really strange hardware problem. I have a workstation with two displays, they're both identical V173 ACER monitors.…
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Virtualizing Solaris 2.5.1 (1995)

Posting here instead of unix exchange because although unix is the suject, this should apply to other non-nix OSs. Our development team has been asked to automate some tasks that happen to interact with an industrial equipment running, get this,…
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GLX is compiled with wrong version (Display resolution and hardware acceleration stopped working)

I have two Ubuntu 14 Desktops (identical). Both were working fine until Friday. Some updates appear to have been performed on the non-working machine... 2019-03-18 02:29:32 install linux-base:all 4.5ubuntu1~14.04.1 2019-03-18 02:29:32…
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RemoteApp RDS Server 2016 - Menus Opening to left

I have setup a new RDS server in Azure running server 2016. I have deployed some programs through remoteapp but am not having a problem with the menus on all remoteapp programs. The menus slide out to the left instead of to the right. This happens…
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Better screen resolution on debian server with no graphic card

I have a debian server (no graphic card), but using nomachine from a linux client I only get a 1024x768 screen resolution. How do I get a better resolution? Thank you!
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How to reset Services.msc console

After updating to Internet Explorer 9 on a Server 2008 R2 SP1 box, I noticed that my services.msc console looked a little off. If you check out the screenshot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nosenseworrying/8614996608/in/photostream), you'll notice a…
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Windows: Remote Display Back in Powershell a la X11?

If I have two Linux boxes, A and B, I can SSH from A to B with X11 forwarding enabled. This allows me to use graphical applications on B and have the display rendered on Machine A. Is there a way to achieve the same effect in Windows when I'm in a…
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How can I launch a GUI session on a remote Ubuntu Desktop via SSH from a non-GUI Linux shell?

I am setting up a test environment, made up of various Linux boxes, and I have the need to launch an instance of Firefox on a remote machine via ssh. The remote machine has Ubuntu Desktop (11) and Firefox installed. The source machine is a…
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Linux : Display a permanent text on the desktop

I am looking for a way to display a permanent text on the desktop (xfce/gnome but if I found a way on another window manager, I catch). I was asked to show a version number on the desktop in a permanent way, so I have to display it on opening…
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clients auto-lock feature for inactvity timeout not working

In our sbs 2003 domain environment, the clients' pc's inactive for default period will be locked out automatically and only Ctrl+ Alt + Del & client password combination will unlock the client's pcs. Recently around 9 months before, all our…
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Windows 7 VM using VMware Video Drivers

When I remote desktop into a Windows 7 VM, it says the display adapters being used are VMWare SVGA 3d. Is there any way to use the system's native drivers (particularly with OpenGL support)?
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Debian 5 Display resolution out of range

After installing Debian 5 on a Dual-Core Xeon machine, my display connected to the NVIDIA Quadro FX display card shows me an "out of range" error after the boot-up completes. I see the terminal text (login prompt) though. This is mostly because my…
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set headless ubuntu linux display resolution

We bought a small box as our server and we installed ubuntu linux. We don't plug any display to it, instead, we remote desktop/vnc to the server (using TightVNC). However, the display by default is around 1024x768 and our local display is usually…
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