Re: I'm impressed - Ubuntu
This is a discussion on Re: I'm impressed - Ubuntu ; On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:36:12 +0100, Trevor Best wrote:
> Until it makes you re-activate :-)
Well, that is a PITA, yes.
> I'm sure people have written lots, have you actually done it?
No, I like to do ...
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Re: I'm impressed
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:36:12 +0100, Trevor Best wrote:
> Until it makes you re-activate :-)
Well, that is a PITA, yes.
> I'm sure people have written lots, have you actually done it?
No, I like to do a fresh ionstall when doing a major hardware change.
Or know
> someone that has?
I don't know them but I saw a post from someone at HardOCP who changed the
mb and Vista handled it fine.
> I've changed a monitor in Linux, no problems. What problems have you had
> doing it?
>
Change from an LCD to a CRT or the other way around and you will see what I
mean. You have to go reconfigure the timings and resolutions, may even
have to generate a mode line too. In XP and Vista you just plug it in and
it is auto detected and set up correctly. Not so in any version of Linux I
have used.
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Re: I'm impressed
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:35:19 +0000, Fish wrote:
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> Change from an LCD to a CRT or the other way around and you will see what I
> mean. You have to go reconfigure the timings and resolutions, may even
> have to generate a mode line too. In XP and Vista you just plug it in and
> it is auto detected and set up correctly. Not so in any version of Linux I
> have used.
That is supposed to change with Gutsy.
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Re: I'm impressed
In Stephan Rose:
[Snip...]
> That is supposed to change with Gutsy.
"Fish" will be shocked--SHOCKED, I tell you--to find I replaced a Viewsonic
A70f CRT with a Viewsonic VA503b LCD on SuSE 10.0 inside of 15 minutes.
Simple: init 3, unplug CRT, plugin LCD, sax2, configure LCD, init 5. Done.
Now SuSE 10.0 has been out what, almost 2 or so years now? WhodaThunkIt?
In light of his stunning achievement, "Fish" gets the golden PLONK award.
YMMV; HTH...
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Re: I'm impressed
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:35:19 GMT
Fish wrote:
> Change from an LCD to a CRT or the other way around and you will see what I
> mean. You have to go reconfigure the timings and resolutions, may even
> have to generate a mode line too. In XP and Vista you just plug it in and
> it is auto detected and set up correctly. Not so in any version of Linux I
> have used.
Done it both ways, tried a LCD on my system. On the LCD I had to bring
the refresh rate down to 60 from 75Hz as 75 made it look a bit fuzzy
with some interference lines. Going back to the CRT I had to switch
back to 85Hz as 60 is a bit flickery on a CRT. All adjustments done in
the GUI in the screen resolution tool.
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Re: I'm impressed
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:57:27 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:
> "Fish" will be shocked--SHOCKED, I tell you--to find I replaced a Viewsonic
> A70f CRT with a Viewsonic VA503b LCD on SuSE 10.0 inside of 15 minutes.
>
> Simple: init 3, unplug CRT, plugin LCD, sax2, configure LCD, init 5. Done.
>
> Now SuSE 10.0 has been out what, almost 2 or so years now? WhodaThunkIt?
>
> In light of his stunning achievement, "Fish" gets the golden PLONK award.
>
> YMMV; HTH...
>
15 minutes just to change a monitor? And you think that somehow is
good? That is a 30 second operation on XP or Vista.
