I've never had to lug my desktop around with it's own monitor and
sometimes want to plugin a projector as well. Seems a laptop is better
suited for that. But contrary to what mainstream press would have us
believe, my desktop is STILL much more convenient/comfortable for
everyday work than a laptop.
As Gustin said, plugging in a projector "just works" these days, most
times. As for it "just working" on other OS's, I've seen/had just as
much fun with them to get this set up right. So, I think the comparison
is moot.
On 11-04-23 07:48 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
Except that this is wrong. In a modern distro like Ubuntu 10.10 this
just works. Linux is as popular as it needs to be. Framing the
discussion in this way misses the point entirely (and is largely
irrelevant).
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:55 PM, CITS - Lists
<li...@calgaryitservices.com> wrote:
Lol, and we wonder why Linux on desktops aren't more popular.
Cheers,
Dave Watkins
1-403-701-5746
supp...@calgaryitservices.com
www.calgaryitservices.com
Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity.
On 2011-04-23, at 12:48, Rick Johnson<rick.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:31:10 Craig McLean wrote:
Does Linux (in particular Ubuntu 10.10, using the Nvidia X Server
proprietary driver) allow you to easily configure an external display
device. What I'm thinking of here is the scenario where you show up to do
a presentation and just plug a projector or large LCD panel in to a laptop
that is already turned on hit a display switch hot key and start
presenting. I do this in Windows all the time but I've been to enough CLUG
and Protospace presentations to know that on Linux this always turns into
a mess of X-Server restarts and plenty of tweaking config settings.
Is there any way to make that just work?
Craig.
Connect the second display then open the nvidia x server settings app, setup
the second display and save the new xorg.conf in /home/~. Then open a
terminal, su and cp the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11. The driver will now
automatically sort itself out whether the second display is connected or not.
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