[lug] Linux laptop projector woes

[Holshouser, David]

I've seen the same problem at other times.
If you had switched to a non-X mode, I'd be willing to bet you would have
displayed fine.
Problem: can't make presentation in console mode.

hmmm.

Don't know the fix, but your function key was working properly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faster-Laster [mailto:jason at fasterlaster.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Linux laptop projector woes
> 
> 
> 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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