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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/6/2013 11:53 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <kers70$msk$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> On 2013-02-05, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've moved from 1280x1024 to 1920x1080 over the last year and in each
>>> case, while my manual 1280x1024 settings (which I had for historical
>>> reasons) were used on the new monitor, all I did was to comment out the
>>> manual settings in xorg.conf and restart X.
>>>
>>> In each case, the new monitor was then probed automatically and the
>>> desktop came up just fine at 1920x1080 without any further action
>>> required. This took me just a few minutes and was on unbranded generic
>>> hardware; I am not using anything specifically branded as supporting
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>
>> I should clarify this part to make clear that in the case of my home
>> machines I am referring to the PC hardware other than the graphics
>> adapter; the graphics adapters use the NVIDIA binary Linux drivers
>> so I can use hardware acceleration to play games and do other things.
>>
>> However, my main work machine is using a ATI adapter which uses the
>> Scientific Linux supplied drivers and I had the same trouble free
>> experience with that as well.
>
> And just when I was about to praise how well things were going, I unstalled

Did you, perhaps, mean to write "uninstalled"?

Proof reed before hitting "Send"!

> the latest updates and now 'totem' is hopelessly broken.  Complaining about
> a Gdk error.  Gotta love those informative error messages too... error_code
> 1 request code 154 minor_code 19.  Talk about cryptic.  ;)
>