Ok, well, another question. I called Dell. I asked "can I upgrade my Inspiron 9100 to take a GeForce Go 6800." The answer was no.
Three questions: Is this because the GeForce Go is unavailable in AGP? Is there another, suitable, graphics card that I could jump to? Given that the board were available in AGP, is are notebook video cards standard enough for me to even make the replacement, given that a part could be found. Justin On 9/5/05, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. > Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own > little problems. I currently use an ati M9 > > I find the main problem is most projectors I deal with work in a native > 1024x768 mode, with higher modes internally mapped back to this > resolution. I normally use 1600x1200 which works - mostly. Things to > look for are jittery displays, missing edges, and no screen etc. The > cure? - back the resolution down to something the projector is happy > with. I find that "specs" saying a projector will do a particular high > resolution rather rubbery - the older the projector the less likely it > will be happy at a high res. > > xrandr or one of the desktop applets can be used to change the > resolution on the fly. if the projector doesn't come on, I go to > 1024x768 and work up until we are both happy. > > The main linux problem is getting a config that works at all! > > BillK > > > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:35 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I'm looking for a quick answer, because I may need to make a hardware > > purchase tonight based on the replies. > > > > I have a big presentation on Friday. I noticed, the other day, that > > upon hooking my laptop up to a projector, that the projector failed to > > come on. > > > > It is worth noting that I have had this configuration working before. > > I had made entries in xorg.conf that, should have, allowed for this to > > work. I figured that, because it was a different projector than I had > > originally tested this setup on, that differences in the setup may be > > the issue. Tonight, I came back to my lab, plugged it into the > > projector that I had originally set this matter up on, and it failed > > to work on that projector. > > > > Anyway, quick rundown. > > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 9100. In it is a Radeon 9700 mobile graphics > > adapter, PCI express. > > > > Any thoughts? Do the nVidia cards do this better? > > > > -- > > Justin W. Hart > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
