Am Samstag, 14. Juni 2008 19:03 schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > On 14/06/2008, Marloque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, > > there's a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based off of Debian. > > I wrote a review of a Dell Ubuntu Laptop here: > http://everything2.com/title/Dell+Ubuntu+Laptop > > HTH, > - Jordi G. H.
Hi, Jordi I am using a Dell Latitude D 520 with Debian/Etch and read your report with interest. I hope you don't mind a few questions. You wrote: ******************************************************** While thinking about monitors, I spied another multimedia key on my keyboard. It says "CRT/LCD". I presumed it would redirect output to an external CRT monitor from my LCD one, so I tried it out. I plugged in an external monitor. Nothing happened. I pushed that multimedia key. My LCD's resolution flipped around a little, and adjusted itself to a resolution that would display on the external monitor. The external monitor now was displaying the exact same contents of my LCD monitor, albeit at a lower resolution. I unplugged it, hit CRT/LCD again, and everything was back to the way it was. Hah. So it works. This will be useful for when I take Iris for presentations or for showing off stuff to my students that could complement my lessons. * Easy external monitor plugin support — check ********************************************************* Did you leave this monitor - beamer (I suppose, your external monitor was a beamer for lectures) the way described above? I was not satisfied, because I like to see the audience while talking and not the writing on the wall behind me. So I had to adapt the xorg.conf of the xserver. This now ist working fine, I get a clone of the LFP over beamer. But I have problems playing video-DVDs and other formats like flv-files downloaded from youtube (for instance Dr. Quantum). The beamer shows the icon bar of kaffeine, but not the movie whereas on LFP I can see it. Did you have the same problems and if so, how did you solve them? Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]