Re: [clug-talk] Laptop Display Questions

2011-04-24 Thread Gustin Johnson
In Ubuntu at least I believe the default driver is Nouveau. It was working great until I ripped the nVidia out in favor of an ATI (better open driver support, and the 5750 is far quieter than the 9500GS). It works great with the two mismatched monitors that I have connected, I am hoping to test a

Re: [clug-talk] Laptop Display Questions

2011-04-24 Thread Craig McLean
I sort of works, it just isn't the experience I'm used to. With windows installed on this system I can pretty much plug any display device into the analogue VGA display port, hit Fn-F5 and I'm done. In Ubuntu using both Nvidia Nouveau or the Nvidia proprietary driver I need to plug in the disp

Re: [clug-talk] Laptop Display Questions

2011-04-24 Thread Gustin Johnson
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR might be a good start. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Craig McLean wrote: > I sort of works, it just isn't the experience I'm used to.  With windows > installed on this system I can pretty much plug any display device into the > analogue VGA d

Re: [clug-talk] a whine about wine

2011-04-24 Thread G M
> From: rick.j...@gmail.com > To: clug-talk@clug.ca > Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:56:23 -0600 > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] a whine about wine > > Why the hell would you want to? As part of the Steve Jobbs plan to take control of the world away from Bill Gates.. there are certain things such

Re: [clug-talk] a whine about wine

2011-04-24 Thread Gustin Johnson
Before I ditched Apple completely, I had mixed results with a virtual XP and doing updates via iTunes. In my opinion it is less hassle to just dual boot or switch hard drives (I swap hard drives on my laptop to switch OSs). I never had an iPhone as the whole idea of needing to connect to a comput

[clug-talk] Win XPee free ?

2011-04-24 Thread terr
I have several cast off computers with legal copies of XP. I don't know about install discs but if they ever existed then they might still exist. I also have several copies of NT and copies of 2000 and 98. If people can make use of this and its legal then send me a note. For VM's which is w