On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:44:21AM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Now that I know I should have checked the Linux support of that nice > wireless card before I bought it (thanks Mark) I'll try to be more > clever this time. > > I am about to buy a projector (you know, the one that I can use for > presentations and trainings). > > While I think there should be no OS issue with it I try to cautious this time. > So is there any Linux specific issue lurking out there that I should > take care before buying? > > Specifically I got an offer of 6880 NIS for this projector: > http://www.panasonic.co.uk/projector-mobile/ptlm1e/index.htm > > Will it work with a Linux notebook ?
I am yet to see any problem with a specific _projector_, but we did have problems connecting projectors to some laptops running linux - that is, they (the card/driver) force only modes suitable for the builtin monitor, which look pretty bad on most projectors (which expect mostly vesa-compatible modes). > Any other recommendations ? If you talk about a specific laptop, try it on that projector. If you can't, and you never connected it to a projector, try it on at least some projector. In addition, I do not recommend using the projector's dithering/smoothing, but rather change your resolution to its own (800x600 in your case) before your lecture and make sure it looks nice. If it doesn't, first try to fix the presentation, only then use the projector's smoothing. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
