Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:53 AM,  jns-cmarsh...@comcast.net wrote: I don't think that is the problem.  The windows instruction manual lists resolutions up to 1920x1...@16bits Try it out if you want. I don't

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-20 Thread jns-cmarshall
2010 14:30:27 - (UTC) Subject: Re: USB to VGA On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: I was able to run the StarTech USB2VGA2 on an XO-1 with os359 installed. It came up at a resolution of 1024x768. That's about the max that the USB2VGA hardware can handle. Also about the max

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:53 AM, jns-cmarsh...@comcast.net wrote: I don't think that is the problem.  The windows instruction manual lists resolutions up to 1920x1...@16bits Try it out if you want. I don't think you'll be impressed. You can push it past 1024x768 -- it's just not a happy

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-20 Thread Hal Murray
martin.langh...@gmail.com said: I don't think that is the problem.  The windows instruction manual lists resolutions up to 1920x1...@16bits Try it out if you want. I don't think you'll be impressed. You can push it past 1024x768 -- it's just not a happy place. The pixel count is only a

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: The pixel count is only a factor of 3.  Is it just slow or does something else happen? Only a factor of 3 on a bandwidth limited bus. Joy! From the original author's page

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Marshall
I was able to run the StarTech USB2VGA2 on an XO-1 with os359 installed. It came up at a resolution of 1024x768. I looked for a mode for 1360x768 resolution for my HDTV but could not find one. I tried setting up a 1280x768 resolution but that displayed shifted to the left so the left part of

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: A bit more info.  This echo response issue is only happening in my environment when the external monitor is plugged in, and happens on either test monitor, and using either Startech. The more you describe it, the more it

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: A bit more info. This echo response issue is only happening in my environment when the external monitor is plugged in, and happens on either test monitor, and using either Startech. For the test, I'm just typing 123123123 repeatedly into terminal. This symptom happens both on gnome and

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately,  for now, Work interferes again :-) When you're free again, your feedback will be welcome at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/10.1.3/Testing#USB2VGA_Adapter_usage And there are several other procedures on that

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: The three hard-wired Ethernet dongles I put up on the wiki page this morning as tested and working seem to have dropped off the page. Perhaps they were placed in the wrong spot? I also cant seem to add any more results either, did I offend someone? However, what I can tell you is that my

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I also cant seem to add any more results either, did I offend someone? I think Simon tried to fix up formatting and accidentally deleted it. I see you've re-added it. Create an account and login so you see the latest page

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 06:30:37PM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: The three hard-wired Ethernet dongles I put up on the wiki page this morning as tested and working seem to have dropped off the page. Perhaps they were placed in the wrong spot? No, they are still there. Check browser caching, and

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Gordon
I'll also add that i can connect wirelessly to a Cradlepoint MBR1000 router using WPA Personal pre-shared key, and to a Cradlepoint PHS300 router using WPA Personal personal per-shared key. Thes two beasts like to be configured to one of the 1/6/11 channels and fixed at 802.11g rather than auto.

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-15 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 07:02:38PM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: Any hint on how to attempt a Broadband connection from the Sugar side? Release notes: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes#Connect_to_the_Internet_using_a_GSM_modem Design and how to test:

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-14 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: With time running out on 10.1.3 RC, I've had to narrow my scope here in order to get anything concrete. I'm now using just the 358 build on the 2xXO 1.5's and the 2 XO 1.0's. What I can say is that the behaviour of both the USB2VGA and USB2VGA2 Startechs appear to be equivalent in

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I cant seem to get Xrandr to turn the external off and return control to the XO display when the XO is running.  The output of xrandr only shows that Correct. xrandr cannot control 2 video cards. It can control 1 video

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-14 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:53:53AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: One other thing I need to check further is that the XO 1.0 seems to have a sluggish keyboard echo response to the screen when plugged into the external monitor. sometimes when I'm tapping a sentence it pauses for up to 2 seconds

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-10 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 12/09/2010 02:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Gordonkgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Both 1.5's with both Startechs, with both monitors: If the monitor is already turned on, and already plugged into the USB port on the XO 1.5 before cold boot, the external

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Both 1.5's with both Startechs, with both monitors:  If the monitor is already turned on, and already plugged into the USB port on the XO 1.5 before cold boot, the external monitor becomes active and looks fantastice,

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Gordon
Thanks Sameer, The only difference I've ever seen between the dongles is on the Mac 17 Powerbook. With the USB2VGA2 I can mirror the full 1920x1200 display, with the earlier one, USB2VGA, it seems I can just get it to 1680x1050. I usually carry the USB2VGA2 when on the road, since some

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-07 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I have set up a little XO test environment for USB to external VGA.  I've done minimal testing, but if anyone would like me to try anything specifically, or give me a detailed test plan, please let me know. Here is what