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Taking the Plunge: Part 3

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

I decided earlier in the week that the long Fourth of July would be a great time to reimage my work laptop from XP to Ubuntu.
A couple reasons for this: 1) I’m supposed to be off today, so I can muck around with my laptop without worrying about work stuff and 2) it’ ... Continue reading »

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  • carlback

    1 year ago

    If you need to use it for presentations make sure to make sure it works with the projector, Ubuntu blew up in my face last OOW when i tried to use with the provided projectors.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Good to know and not surprising, considering the issues I've had with displays already. Thanks.
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  • manalang

    12 months ago

    Just to clarify... re: multi-monitor support... my set up had one external monitor. I spanned my laptop screen with the external lcd panel.
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  • carlback

    12 months ago

    Yeah I had multi monitors working as well it was just the projectors at OOW that didn't like it last year for some reason, could have been my beater of a laptop.
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  • Jake

    12 months ago

    Seems like you need to rebuild xorg.conf when you make a change to displays, and I'm still not sure how to get my configuration working. I'm not good enough yet to get Randr to do what I want.
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