[lug] Linux laptop projector woes

[Bob Collins]

"J. Wayde Allen" wrote:
[snip] 
> Then again I've only seen failures like what you are talking about rarely.
> My old laptop (Toshiba I believe) used to fail sometimes when trying to
> drive a projector.  It would work in my office, but not in the auditorium.
> Must have been the difference in computational dynamics between the two
> spaces <wink>.  I think it was Bob Collin's laptop we crashed one night
> requiring a system reboot.  Never did figure out exactly what caused these

[snip]

I found going into the bios and changing the Display Device: to [LCD &
CRT] made my Gateway Solo 2500 more stable when using a projector.

-- 
Regards, Bob Collins
	Mind is the Master-power that moulds and makes,
	And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes,
	The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
	Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:--
	He thinks in secret and it comes to pass:
	Environment is but his looking glass.      --James Allen