[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.

	To get Function-F8 to work you'll probably need a laptop brand specific
module that intercepts those special codes.  You haven't mentioned what
kind of laptop.  If you don't need it, I wouldn't worry about it.

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 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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