Re: Giving up on Fedora 9

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:57 -0400, David Kramer wrote: 
> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > I'd be curious to sit down at the same machine that initiated $subject 
> > though. I've installed Fedora 9 on a ton of systems, all without any 
> > problems, but I'm rather entrenched... Would be curious to know more 
> > details on where/why we're falling down... 
> 
> I've done a partial write-up at 
> http://www.bostongeeks.com/wiki/index.php?n=Research.Fedora9Issues
> though this is not yet an exhaustive list of the issues I've faced. 

A decent percentage of the issues seem to be with KDE4, which isn't 
entirely unexpected, unfortunately... 

> The big deal-breaker, though, is the fact that I can't get my TV hooked 
> up to the external video jack working as a second monitor, even with the 
> exact same xorg.conf that worked under Fedora 8.  I posted about that 
> problem a few weeks ago. 

Ah yes, that. Personally, I use gnome-display-properties or simply 
xrandr on the command line (g-d-p is an xrandr frontend) to activate the 
external display with my own laptop under Fedora 9. Can't remember if 
you'd tried that or not. I assume not on the g-d-p, since you're KDE, 
but xrandr *should* still have worked... What generally lights up the 
external display for me if it doesn't automagically come up: 

$ xrandr --output VGA --auto 


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