[Libdlo] SUCCESS.

[Bernie Thompson]

Hi Sammy,

Glad your Frankenstein is walking. If you'd be willing to put any of
this (the info and links) up on
http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/HowTo, it'd help the next person.

This problem with some gnome elements (the shell, menus) rendering off
the screen has been hit by a lot of people.  There's been several
posts to the list about it, most recently
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libdlo/2009-November/000445.html

Solutions may be distro-dependent -- last Alexander mentioned, it
seemed like it was still a problem on his RedHat config.

It will be interesting to see if, without any workarounds, running the
xf86-video-fbdev X server produces any different behavior than running
the displaylink custom X server for this -- I don't know what the root
cause here is, but have to assume it's some simple defaults in the
xrandr implementation.

Bernie

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:26 AM, James <sammy at sammyjames.com> wrote:
> I got the thing to show me the GNOME desktop. It only shows the part that
> has a background -- with no panels. But you can press Alt+F2 to get into
> your "Run Program" dialog, and from there you can launch FireFox and
> Terminal. So, in effect, you have your computer at your fingertips with the
> DS-90U.
>
> Now, we still need a better driver, because this was a Frankestein's monster
> of a solution. I entered a bunch of search words, and came up with
> "Mythbuntu 7" DisplayLink DoubleSight." I'm actually using Ubuntu Studio,
> but hey -- I got it to work, didn't I?! (And if you want to try the solution
> yourself, just use the aforementioned search terms in Google. It will be the
> first thing to pop up, I believe.)
>
> Finally, I used x2x. Go to wikipedia or use the link provided in the guy's
> forum post from above to find out more about it. As I said --
> Frankenstein...
>
> - Sammy
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