[lug] Linux laptop projector woes

[Faster-Laster]

Um, what type of laptop?

But just in case it is a thinkpad. there is a thinkpad daemon program
that you can install to controll all the nead under-the-hood features of
the laptop. I believe it is tpctl. search Sourceforge for it. It gives
you the options of turning on the external vga connection or not.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:32:42PM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I flew to Gaithersburg, MD for a meeting (at a gubment
> institution called "NIST") and attempted to give a presentation on a
> laptop running Linux.
> 
> This was an embarrassing fiasco, as I could not get the projector to
> display what was on my laptop screen.  The serial cable could be
> plugged into any number of Windows machines and their displays were
> promptly put on the screen.  Even mine, when running the other OS. 
> I had had no problems with the projector I tried where I work, before
> I left.  There doesn't seem to be a HOWTO about this.
> 
> My laptop has a shortcut "Fn" key and a monitor symbol under
> F10---hitting these together really screwed things up: I had to
> restart X.
> 
> Does someone know of some documentation about how to make this work?
> 
> Glenn Murray
> www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html
> 
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