I totally agree with the last comment - there is just a lag in technology with regards to projectors in three arenas. One, they are driven by the computer market, when laptops, monitors, etc went wide screen - it takes a while before projectors are able to handle this. Second, the turn over for our computers is much faster than our projectors, so it seems like the problem has been around forever. Lastly, because the nature of open source and Linux, many things can be equal or superior to Windows but it generally lags in delivery.
Personally, even on the Windows side of things - I kept a 1024 * 768 laptop around when dealing with presentations. On the Linux side as in Clug, I have made allowance for it not to work, not that it can't be made to work - I just recognize my lack of proficiency in getting it to work and don't rely on it. It just reduces my anxiety levels when my expectations accomodate the situation. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca> Sender: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:07:30 To: CLUG General<clug-talk@clug.ca> Reply-To: CLUG General <clug-talk@clug.ca> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Laptop Display Questions If you are using the default nvidia driver, the Ubuntu monitors under System -> Preferences is where you want to be. The interface is point and click, if you connect an external panel it should show up here. If you are using the proprietary drivers (I feel sorry for you if you need this), nVidia provides a similar point and click interface (nvidia-settings or something like this). In both cases you can mirror the display or do a dual head display sort of thing. I just replaced an nVidia 9500 with an ATI 5770 at home. I have two displays and the ATI just worked. My experience is also the same on my laptop (with an Intel). The nVidia Settings program seemed to glitch out once in a while. As for the issues at CLUG meetings, I see the same with Windows laptops at the office. Vendor sales teams seem to constantly have issues plugging their laptops into the various projectors and SMART boards we have, so I am not sure this is something that is Linux specific. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Rick Johnson <rick.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:31:10 Craig McLean wrote: >> Does Linux (in particular Ubuntu 10.10, using the Nvidia X Server >> proprietary driver) allow you to easily configure an external display >> device. What I'm thinking of here is the scenario where you show up to do >> a presentation and just plug a projector or large LCD panel in to a laptop >> that is already turned on hit a display switch hot key and start >> presenting. I do this in Windows all the time but I've been to enough CLUG >> and Protospace presentations to know that on Linux this always turns into >> a mess of X-Server restarts and plenty of tweaking config settings. >> >> >> >> Is there any way to make that just work? >> >> >> >> Craig. > Connect the second display then open the nvidia x server settings app, setup > the second display and save the new xorg.conf in /home/~. Then open a > terminal, su and cp the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11. The driver will now > automatically sort itself out whether the second display is connected or not. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
