RE: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-11 Thread Ow Mun Heng
> -Original Message- > From: Justin Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I actually got mine working pretty happily. It connected to the > projector today and worked with no problems. > > Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "X.org Configured" > > Screen "Scre

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Hart
I actually got mine working pretty happily. It connected to the projector today and worked with no problems. Justin On 9/7/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:55 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > I would be interested in a copy of your xorg.conf - its always good to

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:55 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > I would be interested in a copy of your xorg.conf - its always good to > see how the other guy does it ... > > Mine is at http://wdk.dyndns.org/xorg.conf.html Here's Mine. (note that The Dual Head is commented out. I don't use dual Monitor a

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
I would be interested in a copy of your xorg.conf - its always good to see how the other guy does it ... Mine is at http://wdk.dyndns.org/xorg.conf.html BillK On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:01 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:34 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > I currently use an ati

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:34 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > I currently use an ati M9 Dell D600 - Radeon M9 too (or Radeon 9000) > missing edges, and no screen etc. The Ah.. Me too. 1400x1050. Missing edges at this res. > xrandr or one of the desktop applets can be used to change the > resolution

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Laptop hardware is custom, so I doubt yu can replace anything with something else. For radeons, use the xorg driver rather than the ati ones for a laptop. You lose some, you gain some. For me I can get it to work across multiple projectors/monitor types and resolutions without rebooting (I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:34:45 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. > Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own > little problems. I currently use an ati M9 > > I find the main problem is most projectors I de

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Hart
Ok, well, another question. I called Dell. I asked "can I upgrade my Inspiron 9100 to take a GeForce Go 6800." The answer was no. Three questions: Is this because the GeForce Go is unavailable in AGP? Is there another, suitable, graphics card that I could jump to? Given that the board were ava

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own little problems. I currently use an ati M9 I find the main problem is most projectors I deal with work in a native 1024x768 mode, with higher modes internal

[gentoo-user] Multiple Displays & nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Hart
Hey folks, I'm looking for a quick answer, because I may need to make a hardware purchase tonight based on the replies. I have a big presentation on Friday. I noticed, the other day, that upon hooking my laptop up to a projector, that the projector failed to come on. It is worth noting that I h