[olug] Video output plug question and other questions

[Sam Tetherow]

Does the onboard chip have a heat sink on it?  You might be able to 
place a small vidchip fan on it to help cool it, but that may only be a 
stopgap if the heat sink isn't keeping up the overheating may be 
symptomatic of another issue.

I have seen the vid cables without the spade pins in the mac world.  
Have you looked up the vid card online?  I think I have a dual head 
adapter cable that looks like a dvi cable without spade bits splitting 
into two dvi ends.

On 06/15/2011 09:14 PM, Thomas D. Williamson wrote:
> I picked up a Dell computer that has a video card in it that seems to 
> overrides the onboard video. There are two outputs, one is an S-Video, 
> the other looks like a DVI, but is only pins there is no bar part of 
> the plug. I looked up DVI and saw nothing that matched this plug. Does 
> anyone know what this is?
>
> By the way I figured out the problem with my laptop, it was an 
> overheating chip in the drive controller, since it is built in, I need 
> to replace the motherboard. I haven't heard from one source yet, and 
> it looks like it is not readily available from many places.
>
> I found a reasonably priced Acer, but have not been able to get 
> openSuSE to recognize the wireless network card. The problem I have 
> had is in determining the chip set in the Broadcom card that the 
> laptop uses.
>
> Additionally the touch pad does not work correctly, but I have seen 
> that this is a known issue. I have not explored how this is corrected. 
> It looks like part of a kernel module needs to be adjusted, but that 
> is not something I have work on yet.
>
> One thing I do know is that Windows 7 is not as useful, limiting 
> access to my printer, and blocking other programs that are 32 bit. 
> With Linux I had full access to everything I needed except one program 
> that did not have a parallel program in Linux.
>
> Thanks for any information,
>
> Tom Williamson
>
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