[advocacy-discuss] Projection issues

[Roman Strobl]

Ok, thanks Alan.

-Roman

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Also, I meant to mention that since there is no known global issue, but
> individual bugs with specific hardware, please open a new bug report for
> each different hardware configuration - it is much easier to close bug
> reports as duplicates than to manage one bug report with 15 issues with
> different root causes & fixes for each.   (After all, if we fix the issue
> with Roman's hardware, and then mark the bug fixed, no one would be working
> on any other hardware issues if they just pile onto a closed bug.)
>
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>   
>> I'm sorry that it doesn't work on your laptop, but it works out of the box
>> for many of us - most Nvidia & Intel chipsets are very well supported.
>> It especially works well with those which have RandR 1.2 support to enable
>> additional screens at runtime - which is mostly Intel graphics at this point,
>> with ATI coming soon.   If RandR 1.2 is supported, then on builds 99 and later,
>> setting up a projector may be as simple as hitting the display switch hotkey,
>> thanks to the integration of the dispswitch project.
>>
>> Strong feelings here are useless, so please leave that out of the bug reports
>> - what's needed is technical data on which configurations still have problems.
>>
>> 	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>>
>> Roman Strobl wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> one of my pet peeves is that external projection from OpenSolaris still 
>>> doesn't work out of the box. How many times have we seen someone using 
>>> Solaris/OpenSolaris having troubles to connect to an external projector 
>>> in front of an audience? Things are getting better, but yesterday I 
>>> still couldn't get plugged in without some xorg.conf hacks. If we want 
>>> people to evangelize OpenSolaris this needs to just work.
>>>
>>> If you also feel strongly about this issue or can provide your 
>>> configurations that do not work, please add your comments to this issue:
>>>
>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4611
>>>
>>> -Roman
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