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I tried to do ubuntu + thinkpad (also fedora + thinkpad), but after two weeks I still couldn't get external monitors to work, and neither could anyone in IT. I
by mnemonik 13y ago
I tried to do ubuntu + thinkpad (also fedora + thinkpad), but after two weeks I still couldn't get external monitors to work, and neither could anyone in IT.
I'd rather just get back to hacking.
- Mikeb85 13y agoThis is hard to believe. My non-technical wife can set up a second monitor on my ThinkPad running SUSE (she'll hook it up to our Plasma TV to watch XBMC). It's as easy as plugging it in... The first time you may need to change some settings under 'Displays', but maybe not.
- tene 13y agoIf this was on nvidia back before nouveau, I can believe it. nvidia's drivers have never supported xrandr, so you need to do everything through their proprietary tools. My thinkpad hotplugs displays with no trouble at all these days, but I vaguely recall having trouble with nvidia's drivers about five years ago.
- drivebyacct2 13y agonvidia's supported xrandr for some time now. I can attest, monitors used to be my worst nightmare in Linux and now I laugh when people haul that lame excuse out right after "But DRIVERS!? and GAMES?!". I can't remember the last time I had issues - in fact, the only issue I had was easily worked around in Linux because of bad monitor EDID data.
- gizmo686 13y agoNvidia's drivers now support xrandr.
- tene 13y agoFantastic; I'm glad to hear it. I've been using nouveau for the past couple of years because of this issue; sounds like it's time to try nvidia's drivers again.
- nitrogen 13y agodrivebyacct2: Your account is still dead.
- ams6110 13y agoHow long ago was this? Even OpenBSD, one of the most conservative OSes out there, is pretty much plug/play for monitors these days.