[lug] Linux laptop projector woes

[Nate Duehr]

Sounds like you probably have a Toshiba.  You need the "toshiba" driver
in your kernel and some of the end-user tools specifically written for
Toshiba's to switch from one monitor to the other while X is running
because those key combniations do other things in X.  

If you had simply switched to a console and hit the Fn key combo to
switch  and then restarted X, you'd have been fine also... I'm pretty
sure.


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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