[frgeek-michiana] Re: FGMLUG notes, 6/11/2009

  • From: "Chuq" <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:53:39 -0400

I have not noticed any problems on mine at least not yet
Chuq

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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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