[frgeek-michiana] Re: Freebox Class
- From: "Fr. Robert Bower" <frrobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 16:37:31 -0400
Laptops and the library,
My 1000HA also had problems with the projector at the FGMLUG. I did
some research about it while I did not fine a definitive solution, I
did do some reading about xrandr. Running on the assumption that the
Dev Group will be meeting at the library on Wednesday night. I am
interesting trying some fixes from the command line to see if the
laptops play better with the projector.
Thanks,
Fr. Robert Bower
Batushka's Web Hosting & Design
frrobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
574.850.7982
http://www.batushkas.com
http://www.batushkas.net
chuq jackels wrote:
Just a little FYI on our class from Saturday:
We had 4 'A' listers show up and 2 'B' listers show up, everyone was
on time. Although at 11:00 am we had 2 people show up and 1 was a 'B'
list with someone else who was interested in taking the class. Kevin
has all of the names of everyone who showed up. I was bascially tied
up with the stupid laptop most of the time.
With using the library we are only able to gain entry upon opening so
we need to take that into consideration when we do our scheduling. We
were able to complete our class with plenty of time (if I remember
correctly we were all outside loading up computers by 11:45am and not
bad considering we were not able to get started with the class until
about 9:45 or so.
We still are having presentation laptop problems...
The laptop has VL 6 rc3 I believe loaded on it (Goose installed this)
and upon loading the resolution had went down to 800x600 or something
to that effect, I was not really paying attention to it at first, I
started playing the GNU video first so I could finish setting up. The
laptop started out fine, displaying the slideshow through the
projector, while the video was playing (BTW I still can only get video
to play through a portable dvd player instead of the laptop) I
adjusted the resolution on the laptop and then I could not get any
display through the projector, I tried everything adjusting the
resolution again, rebooting everything, when I would shutdown and
restart the video would show through the projector so that eliminates
a hardware issue.
I was able to over come this issue only by moving the presentation
files to another directory and logging in under root and was able to
make the presentation via ROOT.
The class went fine although 3 of the receiptiants did not have a
vehicle for transportation, so Kevin provided delivery service. I
think that we need to make sure that when people are contacted about
attending our class they need to be informed that at the completion of
the class they will be recieving a computer consisting of a tower,
monitor, keyboard and mouse, and that they will need to make sure that
they have a way of transporting it home, I do not know what Transpo
will say if someone takes one on the bus, but the problem that they
are going to have is carrying everything to the bus stop and then home.
Let us see where Imre is standing with loading systems that he is
currently working on, and we can schedule our next class in about 2
weeks. If we want to try setting up an evening during the week
sometime as well as Saturday that is fine with me. I believe Kevin
said that he would be interested in doing that as well. I think this
will help out with people that may have obligations on Saturdays.
Chuq
BTW guys how was the LUG?
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