Ok, thanks Alan. -Roman
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Also, I meant to mention that since there is no known global issue, but > individual bugs with specific hardware, please open a new bug report for > each different hardware configuration - it is much easier to close bug > reports as duplicates than to manage one bug report with 15 issues with > different root causes & fixes for each. (After all, if we fix the issue > with Roman's hardware, and then mark the bug fixed, no one would be working > on any other hardware issues if they just pile onto a closed bug.) > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> I'm sorry that it doesn't work on your laptop, but it works out of the box >> for many of us - most Nvidia & Intel chipsets are very well supported. >> It especially works well with those which have RandR 1.2 support to enable >> additional screens at runtime - which is mostly Intel graphics at this point, >> with ATI coming soon. If RandR 1.2 is supported, then on builds 99 and >> later, >> setting up a projector may be as simple as hitting the display switch hotkey, >> thanks to the integration of the dispswitch project. >> >> Strong feelings here are useless, so please leave that out of the bug reports >> - what's needed is technical data on which configurations still have >> problems. >> >> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com >> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >> >> Roman Strobl wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> one of my pet peeves is that external projection from OpenSolaris still >>> doesn't work out of the box. How many times have we seen someone using >>> Solaris/OpenSolaris having troubles to connect to an external projector >>> in front of an audience? Things are getting better, but yesterday I >>> still couldn't get plugged in without some xorg.conf hacks. If we want >>> people to evangelize OpenSolaris this needs to just work. >>> >>> If you also feel strongly about this issue or can provide your >>> configurations that do not work, please add your comments to this issue: >>> >>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4611 >>> >>> -Roman >>> _______________________________________________ >>> advocacy-discuss mailing list >>> advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss >>> >> >> > > >
