[olug] Video output plug question and other questions

[David Cannon]

its a DMS-59.  Couldn't for the life of me remember that.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM, David Cannon <medaveduh at gmail.com> wrote:

> They look like this right?
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Shawn L. Djernes <shawn at djernes.org>wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 21:14, "Thomas D. Williamson" <twilliam at inebraska.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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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