[olug] Video output plug question and other questions

[Shawn L. Djernes]

I have seen this odd port on several Dell video cards. They came with a Y cable that gave you two VGA or two DVI. 



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Shawn L. Djernes 

On Jun 15, 2011, at 21:14, "Thomas D. Williamson" <twilliam at inebraska.com> wrote:

> I picked up a Dell computer that has a video card in it that seems to overrides the onboard video. There are two outputs, one is an S-Video, the other looks like a DVI, but is only pins there is no bar part of the plug. I looked up DVI and saw nothing that matched this plug. Does anyone know what this is?
> 
> By the way I figured out the problem with my laptop, it was an overheating chip in the drive controller, since it is built in, I need to replace the motherboard. I haven't heard from one source yet, and it looks like it is not readily available from many places.
> 
> I found a reasonably priced Acer, but have not been able to get openSuSE to recognize the wireless network card. The problem I have had is in determining the chip set in the Broadcom card that the laptop uses.
> 
> Additionally the touch pad does not work correctly, but I have seen that this is a known issue. I have not explored how this is corrected. It looks like part of a kernel module needs to be adjusted, but that is not something I have work on yet.
> 
> One thing I do know is that Windows 7 is not as useful, limiting access to my printer, and blocking other programs that are 32 bit. With Linux I had full access to everything I needed except one program that did not have a parallel program in Linux.
> 
> Thanks for any information,
> 
> Tom Williamson
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