Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own little problems. I currently use an ati M9
I find the main problem is most projectors I deal with work in a native 1024x768 mode, with higher modes internally mapped back to this resolution. I normally use 1600x1200 which works - mostly. Things to look for are jittery displays, missing edges, and no screen etc. The cure? - back the resolution down to something the projector is happy with. I find that "specs" saying a projector will do a particular high resolution rather rubbery - the older the projector the less likely it will be happy at a high res. xrandr or one of the desktop applets can be used to change the resolution on the fly. if the projector doesn't come on, I go to 1024x768 and work up until we are both happy. The main linux problem is getting a config that works at all! BillK On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:35 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm looking for a quick answer, because I may need to make a hardware > purchase tonight based on the replies. > > I have a big presentation on Friday. I noticed, the other day, that > upon hooking my laptop up to a projector, that the projector failed to > come on. > > It is worth noting that I have had this configuration working before. > I had made entries in xorg.conf that, should have, allowed for this to > work. I figured that, because it was a different projector than I had > originally tested this setup on, that differences in the setup may be > the issue. Tonight, I came back to my lab, plugged it into the > projector that I had originally set this matter up on, and it failed > to work on that projector. > > Anyway, quick rundown. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 9100. In it is a Radeon 9700 mobile graphics > adapter, PCI express. > > Any thoughts? Do the nVidia cards do this better? > > -- > Justin W. Hart > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
