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[Ted Roche]

Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 10:15, Mike Diehn wrote:
> 
>> Quite the technically frustrating evening it was for some of us at our
>> Thursday meeting, eh?
> 
> 
> Yeah, no kidding.
> 
> Is there anybody here who understands _why_ linux systems have such a  
> hard time syncing up to projectors?

I don't think it's just Linux; I think it's "Not Mac." In the Windows
world, it's been pretty traditional to plan on turning on your laptop
after hooking up to the projector. Especially with one of those
marginally-compatible machines like Toshibas.

There ought to be a HOWTO.

Here's some clues:

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html#projector

which points to:

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop-display.html

and there's also:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582670

which pretty much says, restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).

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Ted Roche
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