Bruno, > The way I did it last week on a ThinkPad T42 was to plug in the > projector to the VGA port, then go to System -> Preferences -> Display. > I will show a second monitor called "Unknown" and will enable you to > switch it on. It will then advise that it needs to enable something > (can't remember what, maybe randr) and will ask you to log out and log > in again. Once you log in again, the second monitor is operational, you > can set refresh rate, resolution, rotation for it and whether you want > it to mirror the laptop monitor. From that point on, it should all work > and you should then be able to enable an external monitor or projector > in a few clicks whenever you need to.
Thanks, that sounds promising, and seems to tie in with the grandr option. I will try this out tomorrow. Graham -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
