[frgeek-michiana] Re: FGMLUG notes, 6/11/2009
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- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:44:57 -0400
How is the fan issue on those Evo laptops? Imre.
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:22 -0400, Tom Brown wrote:
> 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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