Re: Kubuntu, round two
- From: Stephan Rose <kermos.remove.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:33:07 +0100
On 14 Feb 2007 07:15:53 -0800, "temba" <marktemba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14 Feb., 09:23, "J.O. Aho" <u...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stephan Rose wrote:
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. =)
Yes, thats the easiest way to do it and myself I used it for a quite long time
and it has it advantages, as you can turn off the screens too.
Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,NULL;NULL,1024x768"
This gives you to setups, the first will give you the 1600x1200 on your main
screen, the tv will not get any signal, the second will not give no signal to
your monitor, but to your plasma.
You switch with: [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[KeyPad +]
[Ctrl]-[Alt]-[KeyPad -]
I think this will fix your fullscreen problem too, you can add more modes if
you want. Keep in mind that if you have output to both screens at the same
time, the speed will be halved of what the card normally does, this won't
affect more than games like Quake4.
If you want to use two screens, then take a look at this config filehttp://www.kotiaho.net/~trizt/tmpimg/xorg.conf_nvidia_dual
All you really have to do is change the BusID to match the one that is for
your card (in your case, it's the same both for "PCI" and "AGP") and you can
drop the "UseInt10Module" in the "PCI" options. Modify the other settings
according to your own wishes.
You may want to use nvidia-settings, not sure if ubuntu has it's own package
for that one or if it's included with the driver, nvidia-settings allows you
to tweak a quite many values for the card/outputs.
When I do play a movie..I want the movie full-screen on the Plasma
regardless of size on the desktop.
aviplay had this feature that you could get it to play the right resolution
for twinviews secondary screen, but sadly the program isn't anymore maintained
and it only played avi files. I do fully suggest you go and try to use two
screens instead of twinview.
I still need to find a good C/C++ IDE though..any suggestions? =)
KDevelop
--
//Aho
IDE? Just use Kate! ;-) No but seriously, Kdevelop and QT are ones I
could recommend from my limited use. I tried Anjuta (from automatix2)
but it just didn't do it for me.
I did play with Anjuta for about 10 minutes then decided to throw it
against a wall. =)
Will give KDevelop a try next!
Aho, I still need to fiddle with my ancient laptops DSL kernel and
will let you know how it goes.
I am actually back to fiddling with my graphics driver again haha. The
driver that automatix installed is actually somewhat old so I upgraded
to the newest driver which installed with no issues but then now
usplash doesn't want to work anymore and dumps me to the text mode.
After some googling though, came across a thread about this on the
ubuntu boards with a patch for the exact problem I am having...and the
thread isn't even a week old, so apparently this is a rather new
problem! Just wish I wasn't stuck at work right now and could give
this patch a try to see if it'll fix it...it should according to what
I read.
If it works, then I'll also be running with the newest nVidia drivers
and then maybe nVidia Settings will give me some more options as far
as my DVD playback goes. I know that even on windows, the full screen
video output thing is fairly new, and it wasn't until a few driver
versions ago that they actually got it working correctly. So I am
hoping for luck here with the latest driver.
Stephan, good luck to you!
Thanks very much =)
ps. I only have MS on a minor partition as I am doing a course that
runs a program with IE deeply embedded and Wine just can't run
it...otherwise I would be linux 100%
Well MS is going to become more and more minor too as I one by one
check off the things I no longer need windows for. If I can actually
get Wine running correctly, then *most* the stuff I develop is
actaully simple enough to where wine will most likely
suffice...especially when I develop the apps cross platform anyway.
It's usually just applications for customers to adjust device
parameters and such, nothing that uses any major windows components. I
think that even the biggest app I have right now would probably work
under wine if I could get it running right. =)
Once I get that all sorted out though, get my software devleopment
stuff all working in a nice manner with a good IDE, and preferably
something that I can make somehow interact with SourceGear Vault
(never liked CVS much...used it for a few years but...prefer Vault),
I'll be really happy there.
The next major hurdle then though is the CAD/CAM stuff I do which I
currently use Autodesk inventor for which of course has no Linux
equivalent. If it would run under Wine...I doubt it knowing how deep
that app embeds itself in windows.
Though, it seems that I have two choices there. Pro Engineer or
Solidworks. Pro-E is very tempting...but I will need to see what that
thing costs to license....=)
If the licensing cost isn't too bad though and I am no longer
dependant on Inventor...there really isn't much left I would even need
to bother booting up windows for...=)
Thanks again for your input and help everyone, I do appreciate it!
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