[XFree86] im new to all of this.

2004-02-17 Thread Jonathan McLean
Im not sure how much of the information here you can help me with, nor do I know who will even read this, but i have to try. I am new to linux, and there is no one physically present who can show me anything about it, and there are only 2 people who i know who i can talk to so Ive relied on

Re: [XFree86] MultiHead support for Intel 855GM

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan McLean
I believe that if the laptop can support two monitors, meaning that, in windows atleast, you can use two monitors with it, then you can support dual head. In my experience, as long as the gfx card has two outputs, it should support dual head. --- Christopher Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth

[XFree86] Monitor help

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan McLean
Okay, so i was having a problem with my mac monitor and a person suggested to use the Option CrtcNumber 1. Well, in deleted the email by accident and i dont remember what section it goes under in my XF86Config file. Also, i brought my XF86COnfig-4 file back to its supposedly original setup and

Re: [XFree86] Réf._:_Re:_[XFree86]_MultiHead_support_for_Intel 855GM

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan McLean
found somewhere on the web (I think it's on xfree86.org) a page by David dawes, giving details about this driver and it's installation. Hope I helps! cheers, Nicolas |-+-- | | Jonathan McLean

Re: [XFree86] Monitor help

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan McLean
, boot it up and email it to you. Sadly, i do not know how to save it as a txt file. Any help there. I know about emacs and vi (im better with emacs), but thye dont appear to have a save as function in terminal mode. -Jonathan --- Michael Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan McLean wrote

Re: [XFree86] Monitor help

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan McLean
] wrote: Jonathan McLean wrote: Okay, i do not have anyone who can teach me hand son about linux, and so im still stumbling along. I cannot access the file with another computer because i cannot save it as a txt file. This is what i was going to do: save my log as a txt file, copy

[XFree86] Monitor Compatability

2004-02-26 Thread Jonathan McLean
Has anyone ever tried using a Mac flatpanel studi display monitor with the DVI conversion box. Mac DVI is different from regular DVI because it incorporates a USB connection. In order to plug the Mac connection into a regular DVI port you need to buy a mac conversion box which splits the signal