RE: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-11 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-Original Message- From: Justin Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I actually got mine working pretty happily. It connected to the projector today and worked with no problems. Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen Screen0 0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Hart
I actually got mine working pretty happily. It connected to the projector today and worked with no problems. Justin On 9/7/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:55 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: I would be interested in a copy of your xorg.conf - its always good to

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:55 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: I would be interested in a copy of your xorg.conf - its always good to see how the other guy does it ... Mine is at http://wdk.dyndns.org/xorg.conf.html Here's Mine. (note that The Dual Head is commented out. I don't use dual Monitor all

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Hart
Ok, well, another question. I called Dell. I asked can I upgrade my Inspiron 9100 to take a GeForce Go 6800. The answer was no. Three questions: Is this because the GeForce Go is unavailable in AGP? Is there another, suitable, graphics card that I could jump to? Given that the board were

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:34:45 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own little problems. I currently use an ati M9 I find the main problem is most projectors I deal

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Laptop hardware is custom, so I doubt yu can replace anything with something else. For radeons, use the xorg driver rather than the ati ones for a laptop. You lose some, you gain some. For me I can get it to work across multiple projectors/monitor types and resolutions without rebooting (I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:34 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: I currently use an ati M9 Dell D600 - Radeon M9 too (or Radeon 9000) missing edges, and no screen etc. The Ah.. Me too. 1400x1050. Missing edges at this res. xrandr or one of the desktop applets can be used to change the resolution on

[gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Hart
Hey folks, I'm looking for a quick answer, because I may need to make a hardware purchase tonight based on the replies. I have a big presentation on Friday. I noticed, the other day, that upon hooking my laptop up to a projector, that the projector failed to come on. It is worth noting that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own little problems. I currently use an ati M9 I find the main problem is most projectors I deal with work in a native 1024x768 mode, with higher modes