Re: Laptop + projector (Was: meeting : Weds, December 1st)

[Rik Tindall]

Nick Rout wrote:
well no doubt Rik has the instruction book for the projector. It worked
the night I did my presentation, and it worked for Mike JS's
presentation.
It works apparently for Rik from windows, 

Confirmed Win-good: it's a Compaq-Radeon/VGA-out/Linux issue, it seems.
The Function-Screen switching (LCD, external, or both) also does not 
work under Linux.
Using this is necessary to project DVD-play under Windows, because one 
must disable the LCD's frequency for the VGA-out/projector to settle its 
own requisite Hz.

and as his presentation was a
series of web pages, thats probably what should have been done. 

I agree Nick. But I would have been flamed out of sight (viz Steve's 
^H^H^H when seeing test-XP onscreen at arrival during setup ;-). By 
using Ubuntu & Gnome (which I accept is probably blameless - SuSE's KDE 
does the same thing for me, from memory), warts n'all, I was at least 
able to get past the introduction frame of my talk before people started 
leaving. That platform was integral to the content of the second half we 
never got onto too.

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:25:43 +1300 (NZDT)
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...unfortunately the problem was that the projector was seeing the
incoming video as 480x360, which has nothing at all to do with X, which
was fixed as 800x600.
We went back to 1024x768, having determined this GUI setting had no 
consequence.

On Mon, December 6, 2004 9:20 am, David Kirk said:
I would suggest that you create a couple of X configuration files that
are known to work with your projector and make them available on the
CLUG wiki for presenters to download and install before meetings.
These configuration files (1 for XFree86 and 1 for X.org) should use
the generic VESA driver.  All video cards should work with this
driver.
If you don't know how to do that, then send the spec's of your
projector to the list and I'm sure someone can do it for you.
Will keep up with this now as best I can (working with one eye currently).
The unit (Panasonic PT-AE500E) is quite new & capable of a range of data 
input. Auto-frequency-detection is the successful norm (in fact, I don't 
think there's an override), & it seems simply to be displaying what 
Linux is feeding it.

Most times "it just works".
Thanks for the input,
- Rik