[64studio-devel] Re: 64Studio on an AMD64 X2 laptop

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> Hi Ben,
  >>The external VGA port is very important to me, thanks for raising
  >>the issue.  What exact model do you have?

  DJ> I have the ze2000 series (exact model is ze2355ea). Single core
  DJ> Turion, ATI Radeon 200M video. VGA out works perfectly, but has to be
  DJ> activated (once only) in Windows, as far as I can tell. It's some kind
  DJ> of software switch activated by the F4 key, not a true OS-independent
  DJ> hardware switch like you used to get on Toshiba laptops. So I shrank
  DJ> the Windows partition to 10GB rather than deleting it.

  DJ> Free has the zv5000 series (model zv5464ea) with a single core Athlon
  DJ> 64 and nVidia GeForce 440 video. Nicer screen on those, but I'm not
  DJ> sure if he uses the external video out.

Yes  I've used it some   month ago to watch   a movie with a  friend's
projector, but AFAIR it only works with the Nvidia Xorg module.

Ciao,

Free