John Jason Jordan wrote: > I currently have roughly 10 hours invested in trying to get my Thinkpad > with nVidia video to work with projectors at PSU. That's about six > hours on campus and the rest of the time at home researching the > nouveau driver, xrandr, and the nVidia proprietary driver, installing > and uninstalling each. It also involves several man-hours of time spent > by PSU support staff, not that most were very useful: > > "What version of Windows do you have?" > "Windows is not installed on this computer." > "But it's not a Mac ..." > "It runs Fedora 13." > "What's a Fedora 13?" > > Eventually I usually did find a support person who knew Linux, but even > then they knew nothing of the nouveau driver, and little about xrandr. > > I did discover that the projector in FAB 86-01 is a Hitachi CPXCO5, > although the O may be a zero. Unfortunately Hitachi and Google are > unable to find that model. Without technical specs there is no way to > tell what resolution(s) it is capable of. > > Not that projector matters much. Using the nouveau driver I can't even > see it; xrandr -q just shows the laptop screen. Using the nVidia driver > I can see it, but I can't get it to display anything. > > I asked here if anyone who has successfully used the projector in FAB > 86-01 could share how they did it, but there have been no responses. > > It's time to throw in the towel. > John Jason Jordan Searching on CPXC05 suggested CPX5, but that may be off the track Regards Fred James
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