Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.3 & slides projector

At 11:56 AM 1/2/06, Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:

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I've recently connected my laptop, running SuSE 9.3, to a slides projector for a project presentation. To my surprise my laptop screen turned black , as if the laptop had been turned off, while the new "screen" was projected onto the wall. It was difficult for me to follow up the slide, being shown, with my comments as I had to keep my hands on the keyboard but turn my eyes to the wall behind my shoulders to be able to read. On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:28:57 -0500 Frank Bax wrote:

Try your laptop user's guide first. Does your laptop have a function (F1-F12) key with a picture of two monitors on it - usually F4 or F5. On many laptop, you hold down a special "Fn" key and then press the F4 or F5 (or whatever) to cycle through various output modes. Each time I press this combination on my laptop changes from LCD only - VGA only - both LCD and VGA - LCD only - VGA only - etc ... At the BLU we do this every month with all sorts of laptops. Some laptops, like my Compaq Presario can switch into 3 modes (local screen only, remote only, both local and remote). Normally, I have no problem displaying on both. Some laptops will only display to one screen at a time. This is a hardware not a software function.

Also note that the resolution and the frequency may need to be changed for the overhead. We've had a lot of problems with the newer Thinkpads at MIT. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9