[Info-vax] Audio and video technology, was: Re: getting pixel dimensions of monitor

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-02-05, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> In article <00ACE715.55E675FB at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> 
>> Really?  Then why did I recently spend 2 days dicking about with getting the
>> video to work properly when I upgraded???  It's now working at 1920x1080 but
>> it didn't happen/configure all by itself!
>  
> Probably because he should have said "Score one for some specific and
> unique version of Linux".  The Linux world is more fragmented and
> variant than the proprietary Unixes ever were.
>

Scientific Linux 5.x (a RHEL rebuild) running on generic hardware.
Low end NVIDIA and ATI graphics adapters; nothing special.

Simon.

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