Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Hi all, I'm looking for a 2D video card with dual DVI output that is supported by the non-proprietary drivers in Ubuntu 9.10. 3D support relatively unimportant. Background: Currently I have Nvidia, but their closed-source driver does not support screen rotation (and has a few other minor nits

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Arc Riley
Just pick up a Radeon 9200/9250/9600/9700/9800 They've been supported by free software drivers for a long time, there's mature 2d and 3d support. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a 2D video card with dual DVI output that

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I find only the 9250 on NewEgg, and it doesn't have dual DVI. This appears to meet what I want, but due to previous experiences I would prefer a human recommendation over Google says it should work. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102880 --DTVZ On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at

Re: Multiple X Terminals, One Box

2010-03-01 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm attempting to do is to connect 2 monitors, keyboard, and mice to one machine, and have two seperate X sessions, one on each screen. I recall this being possible with some hacks some time ago, but I recall it

Re: Multiple X Terminals, One Box

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
Hi Thomas, What I'm attempting to do is to connect 2 monitors, keyboard, and mice to one machine, and have two seperate X sessions, one on each screen. I recall this being possible with some hacks some time ago, but I recall it required a kernel hack as normally, only one VT is allowed at

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2010-03-01 Thread Ed lawson
Regarding patent trolling. One of the more interesting things about patent law is that often inventors are advised to use patent application processes which will take longer to be approved. The specific reason is to increase the chance someone will not just create an infringing product in the

Re: Multiple X Terminals, One Box

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: Hi Thomas, There used to be a few hacks floating around for doing something like this. I played with this one many years ago: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ That's the one I was familiar with. but I

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Drew, With selective Googling I found this posting about the Radeon HD 3650 in Ubuntu Linux: http://blog.vinceliu.com/2009/02/setting-dual-head-displays-with-radeon.html And the link to the ATI site in the article seems to show that they are still supporting the board. md

Notes from the Python SIG, 25-Feb-2010: Introduction to CSS

2010-03-01 Thread Ted Roche
Six people braved miserably wet weather to attend the February meeting of the Python Special Interest Group, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator. We had a brief set of introductions and announcements of upcoming meetings. We hope to host a

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for; I did not think to include rotated in my googling, which was silly of me. 1050x1680 (order matters) code-editing screen, here I come! --DTVZ On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Drew, With selective Googling I

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for; I did not think to include rotated in my googling, which was silly of me. 1050x1680 (order matters) code-editing screen, here I come! Well, in this case selective googling was a case of less(1) giving more(1).I just googled for HD 3650 linux,

Re: Notes from the Python SIG, 25-Feb-2010: Introduction to CSS

2010-03-01 Thread Susan Cragin
It was a wonderful presentation. I walked in knowing little and walked out thinking nothing was beyond me, provided I followed a few steps. I urge anyone with an interest in CSS to check out Ted's slides. Also, get the Visibone cheat sheet and download Firebug. What a cool tool. Susan

pvcreate to raid1 fails

2010-03-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
I am migrating my system to a raid 1. Given: Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0003a96c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1

Re: pvcreate to raid1 fails

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: pe_align (128 sectors) must not be less than pe_align_offset (36028797018963967 sectors) By my calculations, the second number of sectors works out to 16 million terabytes, which makes me suspect the diagnostic itself is