Thanks to the help of YoonKit, I was able to get the latest release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04.
I tried downloading it as soon as it was possible, woke up in the morning. Did an md5 check and BAM. It was corrupted. Like damn.
Luckily for me the night before I emailed out to the MyOSS list if anyone was able to burn it, bring me a copy.
Initial Impressions
My god the default theme is glossy. God bless themes. But I’ll keep it on for a while.
Compared to the last installation of Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10), there are no large problems. My widescreen works as an external monitor. Everything seems fine.
Xorg
Namely my mouse scrolling with the middle button.
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “EmulateWheel” “on”
Option “EmulateWheelButton” “2″
EndSection
Desktop Effects
Desktop effects work out of the box!
So I’ve had my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW for a while now. Initially trying to get it work on my Ubuntu setup, but no game.
I finally took the time today to get it working as I desperately need the extra space to monitor some stuff. So nice having the additional 1,296,000 pixels. So with my original laptop resolution of 1024×768 (786,432), I get 2,082,432 pixels! Of course it doesn’t really work like that…
Anyways, the catch. What did I do?
Well my first try was merging the old dual monitor setup with the created xorg.conf by openSUSE 10.2 in hopes of getting some sort of Frankenstein working.
Which didnt…
As many of you can guess, my next approach was Google, and lucky for me, a good thread appeared, with a very good post highlighting how to get it working. Now I won’t reiterate the details here, so you better go there and check it out yourself.
The key to getting it working was the 915resolution tool. Basically I need to modify my video BIOS to support the 1440×900 resolution. This change is only temporary, and doesn’t carry through through restarts. /usr/share/doc/915resolution/README.Debian covers how to handle it.
The resulting xorg.conf was slightly different (modelines) than my openSUSE 10.2 one. Of course, one is running on an i915 and another an nvidia 6200.
Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 (i915):
Modeline “1440×900″ 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 931
openSUSE 10.2 (nvidia 6200):
Modeline “1440×900″ 104.58 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 931
Anyways, its time for me to enjoy my nice LCD :3.
Now suspend to RAM works, but hibernate doesn’t … it brings up my laptop LCD, but the external LCD is greyed out. I have to go run the 915resolution tool again, and restart X. Now onto a solution!
Related files:
On my IBM Thinkpad R52, Ubuntu Edgy Eft would fail to suspend/hibernate with a dual monitor/head setup. Didn’t know exactly what the problem was. I remember googling ages ago, though I don’t even remember what the keywords were.
In the meantime, if the suspend or hibernate is failing on you, what you have to do is modify your xorg.conf, and remove the dri and glx modules. I’ll keep testing it and report if anything doesn’t work so well.
Note: With GLX and DRI removed, I haven’t tested it with Beryl, yet anyways…
