[nmglug] April 2008 Issues Log - Hardy 8.04, Xinerama, New Laptop, mono-1.9.1 and MonoDevelop

[Eric Krieger]

And if you want to connect your speakers to the D/Port Dock, instead of
connecting them to the headphones port on your laptop, you may need to
enable IEC985 in your sound options.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=118866

Look at the seventh post down.

Eric


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:26 -0600, Todd Richardson wrote:
> Not that this is of any importance, but I thought I would share with
> NG:
> 
> Since I've done several upgrades, I thought I would share the
> experience
> and give insight on how I've overcome several issues that I've
> experienced this month.
> 
> First off, I'm on a new laptop, and this is the first time I've
> attempted using a docking station or port replicator.  Its a Dell
> Latitude D830 and a D/Port Port Replicator.
> 
> My problem turned out to be that My external monitor was not
> configured
> in my xorg.conf  I'm not a linux expert, so writing my xorg.conf file
> was beginning to sound a little daunting.  I decided, since I have an
> nVidia card, to use nvidia-settings instead.  ("sudo apt-get install
> nvidia-settings" from a non-free repo)  Worked like a charm.  I'm now
> dual headed (laptop and external) monitor.  (using the "enable
> xinerama"
> check box on the nvidia-settings
> 
> I also do a little bit of c# scripting, and so I like to have a
> current
> version of mono for all those nifty libraries that I'm used to using
> from M$.  Mono 1.9.1 is available from the debian etch backports.
> 
> Props go out to this blogger for getting me started on this:
> http://tempvariable.blogspot.com/2008/04/installing-mono-191-on-ubuntu-804-hardy.html
> 
> **Quick disclaimer about the above link: Canonical doesn't support
> these
> packages, try the etch backports at your own risk
> 
> However, I did run into a few problems.  I was getting some massive
> errors in trying to run MonoDevelop.  I ran across an obscure page
> that
> suggested getting rid of all the data in the ~/.config/MonoDevelop/
> Directory ("rm -rf ~/.config/MonoDevelop")  That fixed it.  I'm now
> running
> 
> After all this, I'm proud to report that I'm Hardy 8.04 all the way
> now
> on my new setup.  I'm running vista virtually (virtualbox-ose) so I
> can
> support my users, as I'm not fully up to speed on its interface.
> 
> Why would I post all this?  Well, this setup didn't come easy.  If I
> had
> run across a page earlier that had suggested nvidia-settings, I would
> have saved a lot of time.  I hope that in my contributing to this
> community, I save someone else a little time. 
> 
> -Todd Richardson
> 
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