[PLUG] Hardy Heron, Xorg7.3, and Projectors

Alan Olsen alan.olsen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 16:22:07 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

>
> I downloaded the Ubuntu 8.04LTS Release Candidate (Hardy Heron) (*)
> Live CD and tried it out.
>
> Hardy uses X.org 7.3 for display.  One of the nice features is that
> it GETS PROJECTORS RIGHT.  For distros from about the last 1.5 years,
> you had to reboot the computer to make it see an external display -
> it was not plug-and-go, the way it was 2 years ago before HAL.
>
> You can either select a fixed external display configuration
> with "Applications/Other/Screens_and_Graphics", or you can call
> Preferences/Screen Resolution from the System menu, and set the
> appropriate resolution for the external projector (or whatever)
> and PRESTO,  the screen is cloned to the external display without
> rebooting.   I hope we can try a few different laptops with my
> projector and the Hardy live CD at the next Advanced Topics meeting.


For which chipset? I am not certain if this will work with nVIDIA and the nv
driver.  (It might with the commercial driver, but then again it might not.
Both are a bit of a pain.)



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