a discovery to add to the discussion..
Nick Rout wrote:
It's ok, for SuSE users. I'd try 9.3 over my Ubuntu4.10 partition to test it out, given a reason.On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:18:47 +1200 (NZST) Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2005 11:10 am, Volker Kuhlmann said:I agree, the problems and solutions relating to external monitors and
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14885.html
projectors on laptops seem to be too numerous and varied to deal with in
such a short article.
9.2 went, unfortunately, recently f/- Xandros (thanks Paul Swafford & e-cafe), which won't boot over some unknown thing it's not getting from Grub (ToCheckoutAgainList..) - I think it plays better with Lilo. Gentoo is stuck down with glu.
There seem to be a combination of factors, including:
1. whether the external needs to be plugged in at boot to be recognised. 2. how you switch the external on and off (keyboard combo, software - either within X or a separate piece of software) 3. timing difficulties with projectors 4. restart problems as alluded to by Steve. 5. chipset differences 6. bios differences 7. differences between the way different distros make and maintain the X configuration stuff.
if you want a real challenge, add in a tv-out port !! TV's work on weird timings (when compared to CRT monitors, which are fairly easy to get the hang of)
Who has time to watch TV, when there's so many FManuals To Read. ;-)
Debian-XFree86 4.2 HOWTO (unofficial) - http://tuxmobil.org/debian_xfree42.html
..where I got this quote:
"|Debian GNU/Linux - The most software. The most people. The biggest is still the best.|"
Are TuxMobil bending the truth, or is there merit in working with this?
Cheers,
Rik
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