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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kerhia$jbt$2 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 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.

Scientific Linux is one flavor I have installed on anumber of laptop
and desktop systems with no hickups at all.   The others were Ubuntu
and Puppy. :-)  One of the nice things about all three of these is
that they come with a Live-CD.  You can run the CD and know up front
if it is going to work with your hardware before even trying to do an
install.

bill

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