[CLUE-Admin] our projector and laptop display

[David A. Jenne]

Admins:

Collins Richey and I have been testing the projector with his HP laptop
running Gentoo Linux and we have not been able to get it to work at all once
X comes up.  The laptop is dual boot with Windows XP and the projector works
fine with XP.  

We tried tweeking his xorg.conf to no avail, and we found nothing in the
BIOS settings for display parameters.  Any suggestions?

This is not fatal, as he is running OpenOffice under windows and can give an
Impress presentation on Tuesday.  Nevertheless, it would be nice to have a
live GenToo demo.

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: clue-admin-admin at clue.denver.co.us
[mailto:clue-admin-admin at clue.denver.co.us] On Behalf Of Jeffery Cann
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:19 AM
To: clue-admin at clue.denver.co.us
Subject: [CLUE-Admin] our projector and laptop display

Dave J.,

It turns out that our projector displays native 1024x768.  Some folks like a
higher resolution on their laptops.

When a presentor uses a higher resolution, our projector will crop the
screen to fit 1024 x 768.  So, to guarantee that the display matches the
projection, presentors should set their X display to 1024 x 768.  
If they don't want to reset, then the projected image is truncated.

Also, the other common problem is that some video ports are disabled by
default - especially in newer laptops that have the one, large docking
station interface.  Presenters should check their BIOS settings and confirm
that their video output is enabled.

Jeff

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