More testing of Ubuntu

Yesterday I forgot to mention one critical test; connecting an external monitor through the VGA cable. This is particularly important because laptops are often used for giving presentations, and the ability to hook up a laptop to a projector with ease is very important. In Vista, when I plug the laptop into the television, the screen automatically gets initialized and the tv gets the last setting that I had used (which is clone). Unfortunately, things were not as smooth in Ubuntu. There was no automagic stuff, and no popups or notifications that anything had been plugged in. Using the gnome-display-properties utility also did not turn up anything. I had to install nvidia-settings in order to detect and manage the television screen. This is something that Gnome could work on, seeing as how the nvidia-settings utility is supposed to be open source, so code could be taken from there and put into gnome-display-properties.

I also said yesterday that I will have to test my firewire vid cam, but upon inspection I see that the laptop has a four pin 1394 plug, but the cable I have is six pin. I will have to wait and see what I can use for testing firewire on this.

Anyways, the UPS guy just dropped off my Dad's new gps unit, and my brother wants the laptop for midi recording, so I have to go. Out.