[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[scott mcbrien]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> Each latop is different.  I found out that on our Acer 5100s that we
> need to power off the laptop and hook up the monitor so the laptop would
> "see" the external connection.  This is *not* os specific.
>
> The biggest issue I've had is dealing with the incompatibilities of
> older LCD projectors and some monitors with my laptop.


A lot of older projectors can only do 640x480 or more commonly 800x600.  So
if the projector is old, my first shot at troubleshooting is changing my X
configuration to be 800x600.

-Scott
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