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DisplayPort 1.2 - multiple displays on one video output? Thunderbolt display DP1.2 compatible?
So I know a few way this should work in theory, lets propose we have a device that can output a DisplayPort 1.2 signal:
1) Daisy-chained monitors. There are none I could find.
The only close match ...
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How do I display the available disk space of a mount in specific format?
I would like to display the available disk space of a mount in xx% format,
For example:
sh-3.1$ df -h /opt/Application/Disk1/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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How to connect PC to TV using VGA to SCART?
I am trying to connect my Acer Aspire One to my Philips 32" 32PFL3614/12 TV using VGA to SCART.
First, I have to say that I can successfully connect my PC to my 17" Philips monitor. When this ...
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How much is considered bleeding?
I got a new LED panel (Dell's 1080p B+RGLED) and it is great as far as color goes. Blacks are also very dark.
However, the center 1/3 to 1/2 of the screen at the both the top and bottom edges has a ...
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Terrible display issues with Dell Vostro 1310
My laptop went spastic about a month ago and after doing a bit of research I have a slight suspicion its the graphics chip. I hope somebody can recommend a repair shop or any suggestions would be ...
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How can I use my macbook in grayscale?
Is it possible to make my Macbook monitor display grayscale instead of full color? How can I do that? I looked in the Displays preference plane "color" tab but didn't see anything that looked like it ...
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White color is not white in Windows Picture Viewer
Recently bought new monitor. And connected it with HDMI. No new monitor extends my laptops in-built monitor. There is 1 problem with white color (all other colors are awesome)
This is how Windows 7 ...
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Laptop screen is suddenly rotated
I turned my laptop upside down to get some dust that had gathered under the keyboard to fall out. But then suddenly, everything was sideways. The entire desktop had turned 90 degrees, the trackpad ...
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Does a black screen save battery on an iPhone 4? [migrated]
Where can I found information about the power consumption of an iPhone 4 display? Which technology is used? Does it save battery lifetime when the screen displays black or dark pixels?
EDIT: There is ...
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How to use my Linux as DVI/HDMI switch? Where 2PC use 1 screen, depending on priority one PC output gets render
I have done this with triple head Linux (it works!!), which is not my current case, but just to explain.
I have this scenario, which i need to solve with Linux.
How can i take 2PC output and ...
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Display cannot be detected after resume of standby
If I sleep my computer at home, then take it to work and resume it, the second monitor from the video card cannot be detected from the "Screen Resolution" dialog. (The monitor turns on just fine, but ...
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Desktop resolution issues
I have windows 7, a ATI Radeon 6750 and a Samsung 22inch A350H display.
I have it connected using a HDMI cable and resolution of 1920x1080 works fine.
Problem is I want to downsize, 1920x1080 is ...
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Can't get 3 monitors to work at the same time with 2x ATI 6900 with DVI
I have 3 monitors, with two ATI 6900. I want to use all monitors using DVI. Is this possible? I'm using Windows 7. I can only get two of the monitors to work at the same time.
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Trying to build a panic like dashboard. What hardware to use? [closed]
I want to build something similar to the Panic Status Board. In their implementation they are using a wall mounted Samsung LFD Monitor (460UXN-2) which has a built XP Embedded PC that is running a ...
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What should I do if my system boots up,runs normally after then but nothing is displayed on screen?
Well there has been a problem with my PC since few days.
My system with a flat screen,2 RAMS,Intel Motherboard,No Video or Graphics Card,2 Hard disk- One of 80 GB and another of 500 GB,Windows 7 ...
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iBook G3 freezes, no touchpad or button response
I have an iBook G3 (900 MHz).
When on battery and the display goes to sleep I cannot wake it up. OS X is not sleeping as I can hear the hard drive running and Ctrl + Command + Power does get the ...
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Windows theme ravaged after BSoD
I know this is going to sound stupid, but due to a faulty RAM module, my Windows 7 x64 crashed with a blue screen, and after reboot, my theme was lost.
Sadly, I can't seem to figure out how to get it ...
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Thinkpad T60 display has suddenly gone dim
I have an IBM Thinkpad T60 2007 laptop with a 14-inch 1024x768 screen. Some time ago on one occasion I turned it on, Windows booted without any problems, but in the exact moment I plugged in my webcam ...
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How can I mount my non-VESA display on a VESA arm?
I have a non-VESA 21" LCD display from 2003, and I want to put it on a VESA arm. I figured I would at least find some sort of overpriced industrial solution for this, but so far I've found absolutely ...
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How are switches for two monitors called? Or can I use a monitor split?
I have 2 monitors, 1 desktop and 1 laptop. I would like to switch the display between desktop and laptop and want to use 2 monitors as extended monitor sources.
I see there are lot of solutions to ...
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Why are the Volume and other indicators missing on my eMachines eM355?
I just bought an eMachines eM355. The default installed OS is MeeGo so I installed Windows 7 into it instead. The problem, however, is that, the on-screen indicators have disappeared.
The ones I'm ...
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Ubuntu Server Console Display Problems
I've just installed Ubuntu Server on an old PC I've had hanging around the house.
It didn't exactly go smoothly, to say the least.
When I first turned it on, it wouldn't boot because the CMOS needed ...
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Disable display scaling on high DPI makes text too big
I have manually checked the option "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" for most applications that used to look blurry. This has helped in most cases but in others it has messed up with the ...
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What could be causing this browser display issue inside a user account?
LinkedIn support has hit a wall on this problem which has been affecting me for a couple months, and is starting to impact my business. When I am logged in most pages (groups, jobs, contacts, etc) do ...
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no DVI signal during bootup 'till OS loaded
I connected a new display (ASUS VS229-H) to my computer using the DVI-cable which came with the display. I only see "no signal" on screen until the OS log-in screen is loaded.
The previous display ...
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Three displays (1920x1200) with one graphics card
I'm using a Zotac GTS250 with two 1920x1200 28" monitors in extended desktop mode.
I need an additional display, so I'm going to buy one more 1920x1200 28", but since GTS250 doesn't support more than ...
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Will the picture from DVI port be different from VGA port?
If I had two identical monitors and a video card with one DVI and one VGA port capable of dual-monitor output, and I connected one monitor to each port, would the displays look the same? (They will ...
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Windows 7 Dual Monitors in Duplicate display mode - How to set zoom just one monitor?
I have dual monitors set to duplicate the display on both. Is it possible to zoom in on one monitor but not the other?
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Screen fuzzes/zig zags on a custom build
Recently, I built my first computer:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
4 x 1GB DDR2 RAM
500GB SATA hard drive
Radeon HD 6770 graphics card by XFX - using one monitor via DisplayPort -> VGA adapter.
MSI P6N SLI ...
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Half the screen on my laptop is displaying incorrectly (random colors)
My netbook was dropped and now half the screen is displaying incorrectly. Its basically a rainbow spectrum of random colors.
On the other side everything is working just fine. It doesn't appear that ...
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Best and affordable way for great slideshows on a HDTV [closed]
The need - to allow my non-technical family members to access our media library (our pictures and movie clips).
My setup is:
Upstairs desktop Windows Vista machine with 1TB of media files on it, ...
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Can graphics driver cause low level crash on a pc? (frozen screen output) [closed]
I recently installed a beta nvidia graphics card driver and my pc crashes with frozen screen output.
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Display brightness
When the power cord is removed from a laptop, the display brightness goes down slightly (very slightly, not a complete "notch").
The interesting thing is, I don't remember XP doing this, it seems to ...
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No image from graph card but image from motherboard
I have an HD 5970 running on a P8Z68-v LE motherboard and I have no image comming out of the graphic card.
When I plug my screen on my motherboard, I see the bios and the
OS.
When I plug my screen ...
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Dual monitor on PC with one VGA and one DVI-D input
I realise there are a number of similar questions already posted but I haven't seen any where the DVI input involved has been DVI-D. I hastily bought a VGA to DVI converter, then realised the cable ...
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Monitor Setting in Registry in Windows 7
When we want to change the display setting, we can use the display setting UI.
But besides UI, can I directly change the setting in the registry so that I can programmatically do it?
For instance, I ...
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Is there software for stress-testing computer displays?
I am working with a monitor in our offices that appears to have a malfunctioning DVI interface. When the monitor is in DVI mode, even with cables disconnected, there is serious ghosting, artifacts, ...
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How to get back true color mode in VirtualBox?
I have a Windows 7 x86 VM which I run in Virtual Box.
Sometimes, when I play Alpha Centaurie, it ends with the VM only displaying 256 colors.
When I go to Screen Resoltution, I only see:
I tried ...
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Intel video driver breaks HDMI output after boot
I have Asus 27T1E display (for the record it's more of TV by nature that is being marketed as computer display, line is blurry there) that is used with my current PC (Mini-ITX build with some ...
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External monitor goes blank after resuming from hibernation in Windows 7
I have a Dell Vostro 3450 laptop connected via HDMI to an external monitor. Windows 7 is configured to use only this external monitor, disabling and turning off the laptop screen.
This setup works ...
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Dell Latitude D620 LCD display incorrectly
I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. It was free. When I got it, it worked fine for three days. Then, whenever I turn it on, the screen is a garble of blue lines and shakiness. I hooked the computer up ...
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How to rapidly switch between two desktop settings?
Is there some way to set up shortcuts to easily switch between having two monitors extended or duplicated simply? Perhaps a powershell script that would set it to one and another powershell script ...
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How do I figure out what to set my DISPLAY variable to for a virtual display?
Here's my uname -a info ...
Linux qa3398c 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 23 10:52:51 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm running some Google Web toolkit tests that require access to a ...
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Screen goes off for ~20 Seconds after Windows 7 splash screen
A strange thing I have noticed is the following. When booting Windows 7 x64 on my Thinkpad e520, right after the "Starting Windows" screen (glowing windows flag) my screen goes blank for 10-20 seconds ...
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What is the formula for NVIDIA's digital vibrance? And what is the advantages over a simple saturation boost? [closed]
I was thinking: Now that we have loss less display<->videocard transmission methods (DVI, HDMI) it should be possible to find out what their formula is. Why isn't it public? Seems like a really ...
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Win XP - Why can't I change my primary monitor when using multiple displays?
I'm not sure if this question should be migrated or not, but I browsed the other stack exchange sites and assumed this one to be the closest/most appropriate arena. Please migrate this question to ...
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What colour is the dark green on 'old fashioned' green screen computer displays/VDUs?
I'd like to make my text editors display like the old skool white-on-green VDUs of yore that I can just about remember from my childhood. I have this idea they might be easier on my old eyes.
I was ...
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lowest achievable watts for decent resolution display?
I have an unusual question. The scenario is onboard computing / entertainment for a live aboard boat with a very tight energy budget. I'm trying to figure out what is the most energy efficient ...
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Different display arrangements for two identical displays
I have a MacBook Pro running OSX Lion and two workplaces with identical setups: at both places I have an 27" LED Cinema display. At one workplace my MacBook is on the left side of the external ...
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$DISPLAY dependent gtk themes
I have a computer at home that I log into remotely. The "monitor" for it is a TV, so I want gtk applications to use a large font and icon theme, which I managed to do by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file ...
