* Steven Garrity <stevelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-06-01 20:04]: > Kaj J. Niemi wrote: > >I would like automatic second display support (when connecting your > >laptop to a projector for example). So far I haven't been able to figure > >out how to do it except restart X with different settings. IMHO, it's one > >feature Apple's Powerbooks do really well running OS X. > > After watching the video of the talks from Guadec, you can see that this > is a big problem. Almost every talk started off with 5 or 10 minutes of > fiddling to get the video-to-projector working. In some cases, the > presentation went on with partially broken displays. I think part of the problem here was xrandr. It seemed that when using the dynamic resolution switching app (which I think uses xrandr), things didn't work. We ended up having to restart X using the resolution we wanted and get the technician to re-sync the projector before our stuff worked (and by 'worked' I mean 'worked for all but ~5% of the bottom of the screen' ;) . Andrew -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
