[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:08 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I've got it hooked to a projector now and it did auto-detect on boot.

> Function-F8 seems to have no effect.

> I'm still curious how to get Impress to realize I have 2 monitors.  I
> assume it can have presenter notes on the laptop screen and just the
> slides on the projector.

	Now THAT's a horse of a different color.

> Under slide show settings, there is a pull down for multiple monitors,
> but it is grayed out, even though I have it hooked to the projector.

	Ok...  That tells me you, at least, have OpenOffice 3.  Ubuntu, that
would be GoOO 3.  That feature was not available earlier.

	This gets a little touchier.  I've played with it a bit under Fedora on
a Lenovo T60p laptop.  The ATI Radeon drivers are a never ending source
of frustration.  What you have to do is change some of your display
settings to take it out of "Mirror" (the default where the same thing
shows up on both/all screens).  On Fedora it's under System ->
Preferences -> Hardware -> Screen Resolution.  Uncheck "mirror" and try
and set up the two screens independently.  THEN launch Impress.

> Greg

	Regards,
	Mike

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Charles Shapiro
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried it? On my R50, that's part of the BIOS. It works fine under
> > an old copy of Ubuntu, and I'd expect it to work regardless of what OS the
> > machine is running.
> >
> > -- CHS
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I've never done a demo via linux before.
> >>
> >> I have my laptop dual booting and from windows I can just function F8
> >> (I think) and the display gets duplicated to the external VGA
> >> connector.
> >>
> >> How do I do that for Linux?  (KDE4 if it matters)
> >>
> >> Thanks
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