[aklug] Re: Projectors and Secure Wifi

Laptop is a Gateway, can't remember the model designation. Uses a ATI Radeon
Xpress 200 integrated card, with support for VGA-out and Svideo-out.
With 8.04.1 the only way I could get dual monitor support was with the ATI
drivers. The fglrx driver wouldn't cut the mustard for this. No video to the
second monitor. With the ATI driver, installed through Envy, I got ATI's
Catalyst manager and was able to manage dual monitors on the fly without
rebooting. It wasn't quite plug-and-play but it was close.

My problems have all been with Ubuntu or Ubuntu-derived distros. I haven't
plugged a projector to the laptop since I've installed 8.10 but need to test
this out before being embarassed this weekend when my laptop fails to
function for a presentation.

So based on your experience, what should I expect using U-8.10 and a second
monitor (projector) on the laptop:
1. plug it in, turn it on, and it "just works"
2. plug it in, turn it on, REBOOT THE SYSTEM, and it "just works"
3. something else in between, perhaps including an edit of xorg.conf

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv> wrote:

> I've had the same problem in the past. I'm happy to report that Mirrored or
> dual-screen mode works with my ThinkPad T42 and Dell Inspiron.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu and the GUI tool for screen resolution has a "Mirror
> Screens" option. It also has a "Detect Displays" button. I'm not sure if
> that works. In the past I had to connect the projector before I booted the
> system. If I didn't the system wouldn't switch to the projector. I'm not
> sure if that's necessary any more but I still do it.
>
> What Laptop and Distribution combo are you using?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Prentice" <ak.prentice@gmail.com>
> To: "Alaska Linux User's Group" <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:13:17 PM GMT -09:00 Alaska
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Projectors and Secure Wifi
>
> My problems with projectors hasn't been getting the projector to work, but
> getting the laptop to pipe video to the VGA port in the first place instead
> of or in addition to the LCD. Once I can get the laptop to function in
> dual-screen mode, life is easy. The projector itself is no trouble at all
> at
> that point.
>
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