Kubuntu, round two
- From: Stephan Rose <kermos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:01:59 +0100
Well had some more Kubuntu fun today!
Now with the video resolution where I want it...
I actually did get the dual view working as well! Though...not quite
the way I want.
I ended up going the nVidia driver TwinView route as from the various
different methods I've seen to get a dual view that seemed the easiest
for me. It being nVidia only doesn't bother me since...I am nVidia
only myself. =)
The only thing is though...it's not quite what I want. If I had a
second actual monitor attached, it would be *perfect*! I got both the
extend desktop and clone modes working.
However...I don't have an LCD monitor attached...I have a Plasma TV
attached...those things don't like displaying static stuff! =)
So what I am looking for is basically this: When I am not playing a
movie, it can display whatever it wants...don't care..it'll be off
anyway.
When I do play a movie..I want the movie full-screen on the Plasma
regardless of size on the desktop. The clone view method *almost* gave
me that except that it only shows part of the 1600x1200 clone on the
1024x768 TV. Plus, I'd rather not have to have to play the video full
screen as I like to have the video playing in the background while
working and such...
Since I have DVDs from a lot of different regions, my PC is my
region-free player =)
Under windows, this does work via the nVidia driver. It has a Full
Screen Video mode that sends *any* video output from any application
to the plasma...regardless of size, etc.
I can't seem to find any such options though in the nVidia Settings
under linux or the additional options available in xconf.org. I did
find a list of various options I can specify there, and that is how I
did the TwinView successfully, but nothing seems to give me this full
screen video mode I want.
Did nVidia either not just include this in the linux driver or am I
not seeing the tree again because the forest is in the way?
I also tried to get Wine working...but winecfg won't even start up.
Gives me some critical section error...don't have the exact error msg
written down, prolly play with it some more tomorrow and see if I can
figure something out.
Other than that...it's working quite well!
I did get the IME working for Japanese, which is doing its job most
nicely! Behaves exactly like I expect it and want it to.
Did play around with Thunderbird a little for newsgroup stuff which
worked quite well too.
Overall, pretty decent results today. =)
It will still be a long time before I can even think about saying "Cya
windows"....but...I am one step closer now than I was yesterday. =)
At the very minimum I have a very decent platform now to do my cross
platform testing on for my work. That in itself already makes me very
happy.
I still need to find a good C/C++ IDE though..any suggestions? =)
Thanks,
--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6
kimi no koto omoidasu hi nante nai no wa
kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara
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