Troubleshooting the Dell Inspiron 5100 on Ubuntu

[cyberspike]

Thanks for the response. I just installed driconf and enabled HyperZ, but have the same problems (lost window decorations, same error/warn, etc.).

I have tried it using a stock xorg.conf, as well as with the copy posted in this thread.

I'm at a loss ...

[rsay]

Enabling S-video TV-out for Dell inspiron 5100 on Jaunty 9.04

xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600
xrandr --output LVDS --off

The first line creates the output mode for the TV
The second line mirrors the desktop to the TV using the previously created mode.
The third line turns off the laptop display in order to get video playback on the S-video output.

I had an old computer fail, so I dropped my old laptop in as a mythtv frontend until my new frontend computer arrives.