On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:51:37 -0800 Russell Johnson <[email protected]> dijo:
>In my experience, plugging the projector in before booting is the >easiest way to get it to work. If your system works with an external >monitor, it will work with the projector. It doesn't work with an external monitor at home. That is, it sees the external monitor, but I can't get it to clone the signal to the external monitor. The monitor in question is an LCD that runs at the same native resolution as the laptop. The nVidia Settings GUI sees it, but I haven't hit on the secret combination of settings that will make it clone the laptop display to the external monitor. The external monitor is receiving some kind of signal, because the "no signal detected" message disappears as soon as I plug it into the VGA output on the laptop. But it remains black regardless of what I do. However, yesterday at PSU I did succeed in getting my laptop display to appear on the wall with the classroom projector. I just couldn't get the resolution right. The part I don't understand is where it says in the technical specs for the projector: Native resolution 1400x1050 Maximum resolution 1600x1200 Does "maximum resolution" mean that it will display whatever the laptop sends to it, as long as the laptop resolution is within the maximums? And if so, what is the secret to making it do so? And note that I can't get anything to work with the nouveau driver and xrandr. My partial success yesterday was with the nVidia driver. Xrandr reportedly works with some nVidia drivers, but apparently not mine. >If it's not working, then maybe your making it too complicated. It's already complicated. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
