On 1/26/06, Sunny
On 1/26/06, Maura Edeweiss Monville
wrote: I recently used my laptop for a presentation. It runs Linux/SuSe 9.3 and the Windows emulation package Cross-Over. They attavhed a VGA projector and by operating the keys Fn-F5 I managed to have the slides displayed on both the laptor monitor and the big screen on the wall. I used MS PowerPoint to generate the slides so I used it also to project them. Wne I cliked on the button "Slide Show" the slide was displayed in full-screen mode on the laptop monitor where it kept its aspect ratio. On the big screen instead the slide image was chopped laterally as well as at the bottom. <snip>
Usually the projectors have smaller resolution that your LCD. When I'm to attach another monitor or projector to my laptop, I create a new SCPM profile with the new device (it's resolution, refresh rates, etc.) and use it. Keep in mind that only changing the resolution may not help, as different devices has different refresh rates.
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I vote with Sunny. If you have the screen resolution set too high on your laptop screen it can cause clipping issues like the above. Incompatible refresh rates ccan also cause issues, but not normally clipping. You have the same issues in Windows. Newer projectors are more flexible, but I've had a lot of problems with older ones (and with cheaper ones). This is very laptop/projector/setting specific. Most people doing presentations either use a low resolution setting on their laptop display or they bring their own projector that they know to work with higher resolutions/refresh rates. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century