dual monitors

5
Fedora 11 was released this past week and I’ve already downloaded the various netinst and DVD ISO images for both 32bit and 64bit systems at home.  I’ve got 5 computers to upgrade: 1 development server, 1 MythTV server, my desktop, 1 Myth client and my laptop.   Since I’ve now […]

Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop

 in Fedora / Linux  tagged acer / anaconda / dual monitors / Fedora / gnome / intel / intel driver / java / java native interface / jni / mingw / MythTV / nvidia / nvidia geforce / PulseAudio / Wordpress / xorg (updated 5418 days ago)
For the past 4 years I’ve worked happily at home with my Acer laptop.  I’ve discussed many of the issues I’ve had with running this laptop with Fedora.  For the most part, despite how those posts may sound, I’ve actually been pretty happy with both the laptop and with running […]

Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds ...

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / NVidia / Video / x86-64  tagged 64bit cpu / acer / dual monitors / f10 / gdm / gnome / intel / java / laptop / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / rpm / suse / ubuntu / Video / xine
4
If you’re using xrandr on a box with an Intel graphics chip in order to setup your dual displays then you might have noticed that GNOME moves its main panel to the monitor connected to the external VGA port.  This happens because the Intel chip says that the external VGA […]

Intel graphics, xrandr and GNOME: the case of the ...

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11  tagged dual monitors / gnome / intel / kde / laptop / MythTV / projector / vga port / xrandr
I was reading various web sites today when I came across an article on ComputerWorld discussion the 5 best features of Linux 2.6.28.  On of these items is GEM, the Graphics Execution Manager.  This is a new architecture of sorts that allows for better X performance (in a nutshell).  Why […]

F10 intel driver: a few more tidbits

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11  tagged aspire / computerworld / dual monitors / f10 / Fedora / graphics / intel / intel driver / kernel / laptop / Linux / lwn
My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade.  F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode.  I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet.  So I wasn’t sure why things had changed.  […]

Fedora 10 and Firefox upgrade complaints

 in Fedora / Linux / Printing  tagged chkconfig / dual monitors / epson / evolution / f10 / f9 / Fedora / firefox / intel driver / laptop / Linux / multihead / networkmanager / Open Source / printing / printing issue / r280 / red hat / wifi
6
Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server).  The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10.  However, my laptop supports dual monitors.  Of course, that didn’t work out of […]

Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / X11  tagged acer / aspire / dual monitors / Fedora / freedesktop / gdm / graphics / holiday / intel / intel driver / laptop / Linux / linux format / multihead / multimedia / MythTV / Open Source / red hat / rpm / sports / vga port / Video / video memory / virtual display / X11 / xorg / xrandr (updated 5580 days ago)