[NCLUG] epson ex5210

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:32:43PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > N0WIQ Kerry wrote:
> > > I just got an epson EX5210 and I am having trouble using it with my 
> > > UBUNTU-12.04-amd64 op-system.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have possibility a suggestion of what I might have to do?
> > 
> > Wild-ass guess, based on almost no information at all:
> > 
> >     xrandr --auto
> 
> I like using the GUI program 'lxrandr' for this purpose.  Ubuntu is
> not Debian but on my Debian system this works:
> 
> Install 'lxrandr'.  Then after it is installed there will be a new
> menu item under [System], [Preferences], [Monitor Settings].  That
> will bring up a GUI where you can select your display.  It also runs
> 'xrandr --auto' as Chad suggested above and just bringing up the GUI
> might enable your second display automatically.
> 
> Bob
> 
> P.S. Of course being the command line person that I am the following
> does it all from the command line.
> 
>   $ su -
>   # apt-get update
>   # apt-get install lxrandr
>   $ exit
>   $ lxrandr

I'm not sure "command line person" is quite accurate in this case, but
good idea bringing up GUI front-ends to RandR config, in any case.

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