Robert Love wrote: > Particularly, after attending a conference this weekend, I can point out > the dire situation with respect to external displays!
As a slight diversion from this thread: this actually seemed to work better *last* year. Therefore, either the hardware in new laptops handles this worse now, or the current line of software does. Last year, the problems were usually solved by simply restarting X with the projector plugged in, but this did not work in many cases this year. Any theories? If software is to blame, is there a clear path we (as distros) can use to minimize this effect? It helps that many distros set LCD output at 60Hz by default, but the proliferation of widescreen laptops has an adverse effect on display timings. We saw many-a-scrolling-desktop this year. If there are no theories, it would be really cool to set up a "test booth" at OLS or GUADEC or some other big conference with many laptops, where people plug in their laptops to an external video device, and results (model, distro, output success, refresh rate, etc) are recorded. I would be willing to do this for one day of such a conference. The results could be extremely indicative. --Pat _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
