Occasionally when talking to techy type people about how Linux isn’t making the progress it should on the desktop, I volunteer the idea that it’s because it is harder to use than Windows. This is usually greeted with blank stares and ‘Well, actually I don’t think it is.’ It’s at this point that I usally feel like a bit of an imbecile and start looking for the door.
I have been trying unsuccessfully for the last four fucking hours to clone the output of my fucking monitor onto the fucking telly next to me via the fucking s-video output on my fucking graphics card so I can watch fucking DVD movies without having to strain my eyes at my tiny fucking monitor.
Several people on the Internet seem to have found ways to do it, but they are all different, none of which seem to work.
The man pages for XF86Config only seem to make sense if you know what you are doing which kind of defeats the fucking point of reading the fucking things in the first place. Don’t even get me started on the readme file.
I managed to achieve the same effect on my Windows box with three fucking clicks of my mouse in the fucking Display Properties box while my PowerBook set this all up automatically when i plugged the fucking cables in.
I am now going to the pub under a little fucking cloud with little fucking lightning bolts coming out of it.
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There. Now I feel better.
– Update –
All better now. It turns out that in order to use the S-Video Out port on my gfx card, I didn’t want to follow the instructions in the readme under ‘Enable S-Video Out’. No, in fact I needed to follow the instructions under ‘Enable Twinview’.
Obviously.
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