[frgeek-michiana] FGMLUG notes, 6/11/2009
- From: Tom Brown <tombrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:22:53 -0400
Present: Mike, Chuq, Phil, Fr. Robert, Tom
WIRELESS ACCESS IN MOLLOY ROOM
Issue resolved.
Chuq and I brought wireless routers. We tested approximately 12 Ethernet
jacks in the Molloy room. Only 2 worked. Chuq's router couldn't obtain
an IP. Mine did. The signal strength and speed were excellent.
VIDEO PROJECTION ON VECTOR LINUX
Mike, Fr. Robert and Chuq worked on forcing X windows to send video
output to the external VGA port. It seems that distros tend to not
contain one of the two utilities required to make this happen: xvattr
and xrandr. Vector Linux comes with xrandr but not xvattr.
Mike brought a Compaq Evo n600c laptop with Ubuntu. Chuq brought his Evo
n600c with VL 6.0. Mike got his Evo laptop working first, then Mike and
I walked Chuq through downloading and installing xvattr and
checkinstall. Checkinstall substitutes for "make install" when compiling
from source. Checkinstall allows you to make a package (tgz, rpm, deb)
which you then install, upgrade or remove with the system's built-in
package manager. While we compiled xvattr from source code, Mike found a
Slackware binary.
Long story short, the FGM presentation laptop now projects video to the
VGA port. We tested the presentation laptop on NEC and Optoma
projectors; both worked perfectly. Chuq took the FGM projector home to
test different video formats and sources we might use in presentations.
The research Mike, Fr. Robert and Tony did has paid off. Mike and I will
write up a howto page for the FGMLUG web site which will incorporate the
research sources and our experience.
NEXT FGMLUG MEETING
/Wednesday, July 8/
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Molloy Room
Fr. Robert proposed that we allow ourselves the rest of the summer to
build a FreeBox oriented LUG, and, if we are not successful, switch to a
more general LUG format. The consensus was to focus on marketing to
FreeBox recipients through August and review our progress in September.
Tom
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