[CLUE-Tech] Tuesday night's presentation - gentoo

[Evan Widger]

my first inclination would be (without looking at your config) that the 
refresh rate and/or color depth is too high for the projector, did you 
try fiddling with them?

Collins Richey wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> The presentation is still on, but in the absolute come-upance of all
> times, the only way I can get my laptop to work with the CLUE
> projector is to use WinXP!!! Dave Jenne and I have spent several hours
> tinkering with this, and I've googled to no avail. Everything I've tried
> with X has resulted in failure. Fortunately I have OpenOffice loaded on
> WinXP(the laptop is dual boot), and the projector works just fine with
> windows driving the display.
> 
> Here's the setup:
> 
> HP ze4630us laptop (mobile Athlon cpu with a Radeon video chip)
> WinXP
> gentoo linux kernel 2.6.7-r2, glibc 3.3.3-pre20040420, xorg-x11-6.7.0
> 
> When I start the laptop in linux, the projector display is ok until X
> starts, then I get a 'no input' signal and a blank screen. My normal X
> setup is 1024x768 using the 'radeon' driver. I've tried lower
> resolutions (800x600) and the 'ati' driver, no success. The only driver
> that will work is the 'vga' driver, and the character sizes are so huge
> that not even a third of the displayed image will fit on the screen.
> 
> I've attached the xorg.conf (just like XF86Config, but xorg uses
> /usr/share/fonts for the font libraries).
> 
> Anyone out there have a CLUE?
> 
> I'll show up early Tuesday night before the KISS presentation, so If
> anyone can help, please speak up.
>