On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:47 +0200 Micha Feigin <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 > Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 > > > Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> Big Lesson: > > >> Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to > > >> display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen resolution > > >> applet, the Thinkpad Fn buttons, and rebooting, and truthfully, I'm not > > >> sure exactly what did it. We finally got it to work mirroring my laptop > > >> screen, so I didn't have any secrets - whatever I typed was in front of > > >> the audience. This actually was amusing because I opened a terminal to > > >> invoke kuickshow. Later someone from the audience came up and said "Wow, > > >> you do robots, fire, and command line. Really cool." (The talk was about > > >> machine art.) > > >> > > > > > > What thinkpad and what graphics card? > > > > > > > T60 > > > > Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller > > (from lshw) > > > > I was given this link now on the linux-thinkpad group > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html > Several people reported using mirrored desktops dynamically. Also dual screen, > but apparently dri fails if the virtual desktop is more than 2048x2048 so you > may have a problem with videos and 3d when using dual desktops. There was also this post: ------------------------------ I tackled this today with a T41 and found this page which was quite helpful: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 I found that reconfiguring the xserver-xorg package (Debian Unstable) left me with an almost empty xorg.conf, but it worked! I was playing with a Samsung 22 inch LCD TV and it worked out very well. I didn't try multi-screen, though I have no doubt that it probably would have worked. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il