[gentoo-laptop] Projector on my laptop

[gentoo-laptop] Projector on my laptop

[Felipe Ribeiro]

Hi,

I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo.

I use my display on 1280x800 and i want to use a projector to give a
speech and show slides and live coding. What do i have to configure?
My xorg.conf? what do I have to change?

Best regards,

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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Projector on my laptop

[Andrew Randles]

My quick suggestion is to try it out and see how it works.  If you get
nothing on the screen I would post back here with some more detailed
information (what information I am not sure).

If you do get something but it is blurry it might be because the
projector can't handle your resolution.  If this is the case check out
the command xrandr

Here the output from my computer,

$ xrandr
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0   1400 x 1050   ( 404mm x 303mm )  *50
 1   1280 x 1024   ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 2   1152 x 864    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 3   1024 x 768    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 4    800 x 600    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 5    640 x 480    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 6    640 x 400    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 7    640 x 350    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 8    512 x 384    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 9    400 x 300    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 10   320 x 240    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
 11   320 x 200    ( 404mm x 303mm )   50
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none

This is a  list of possible screen resolutions currently supported by
my X configuration.  For the projector you will probably want
something like 800x600 or 1024x768.  To select a different resolution
just do,

xrandr -s #

where # corresponds to the number of the line from xrandr.  In my case
I typically use xrandr  -s 3.

I hope this helps,
Andrew

On 12/11/06, Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo.
>
> I use my display on 1280x800 and i want to use a projector to give a
> speech and show slides and live coding. What do i have to configure?
> My xorg.conf? what do I have to change?
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Felipe Ribeiro
> felipernb@gmail.com
> 83 9979-3161
> --
> gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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[gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Projector on my laptop

[Felipe Ribeiro]

I tried with an ordinary CRT monitor, and it didn't work. Do i need to
have anything installed? Is xinerama necessary?

Thanks

On 12/11/06, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@...> writes:
>
>
> > I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo.
>
> > I use my display on 1280x800 and i want to use a projector to give a
> > speech and show slides and live coding. What do i have to configure?
> > My xorg.conf? what do I have to change?
>
>
> IN /etc/X11/xorg.conf   look that the file. Near the bottom,
> you'll find a  screen section:
>
> <snip>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Screen0"
>         Device  "Card0"
>         Monitor "Monitor0"
>         DefaultColorDepth 24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth   1
>                 Modes  "1440x900" "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth   4
>                 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
> <end/snip>
>
> You may have to revisit some of your drivers in your kernel, depending
> on how your kernel is configured, but may not also.....
>
> I'd save an old copy of anything you modify, so as to make
> recovery from mistakes, easy....
>
>
>
> James
>
>
>
> --
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Projector on my laptop

[Hélder Máximo Botter Ribas]

hum

can you send your video card name/specs??

[]'s

helder

On 12/11/06, Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried with an ordinary CRT monitor, and it didn't work. Do i need to
> have anything installed? Is xinerama necessary?
>
> Thanks
>
> On 12/11/06, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@...> writes:
> >
> >
> > > I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo.
> >
> > > I use my display on 1280x800 and i want to use a projector to give a
> > > speech and show slides and live coding. What do i have to configure?
> > > My xorg.conf? what do I have to change?
> >
> >
> > IN /etc/X11/xorg.conf   look that the file. Near the bottom,
> > you'll find a  screen section:
> >
> > <snip>
> > Section "Screen"
> >         Identifier      "Screen0"
> >         Device  "Card0"
> >         Monitor "Monitor0"
> >         DefaultColorDepth 24
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Depth   1
> >                 Modes  "1440x900" "1024x768"
> >         EndSubSection
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Depth   4
> >                 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768"
> >         EndSubSection
> > <end/snip>
> >
> > You may have to revisit some of your drivers in your kernel, depending
> > on how your kernel is configured, but may not also.....
> >
> > I'd save an old copy of anything you modify, so as to make
> > recovery from mistakes, easy....
> >
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
>
> --
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> felipernb@gmail.com
> 83 9979-3161
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Projector on my laptop

[Felipe Ribeiro]

It's a SISM760GX :-(


On 12/11/06, Hélder Máximo Botter Ribas <helderribas@gmail.com> wrote:
> hum
>
> can you send your video card name/specs??
>
> []'s
>
> helder
>
> On 12/11/06, Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried with an ordinary CRT monitor, and it didn't work. Do i need to
> > have anything installed? Is xinerama necessary?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On 12/11/06, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@...> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo.
> > >
> > > > I use my display on 1280x800 and i want to use a projector to give a
> > > > speech and show slides and live coding. What do i have to configure?
> > > > My xorg.conf? what do I have to change?
> > >
> > >
> > > IN /etc/X11/xorg.conf   look that the file. Near the bottom,
> > > you'll find a  screen section:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > > Section "Screen"
> > >         Identifier      "Screen0"
> > >         Device  "Card0"
> > >         Monitor "Monitor0"
> > >         DefaultColorDepth 24
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Depth   1
> > >                 Modes  "1440x900" "1024x768"
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Depth   4
> > >                 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768"
> > >         EndSubSection
> > > <end/snip>
> > >
> > > You may have to revisit some of your drivers in your kernel, depending
> > > on how your kernel is configured, but may not also.....
> > >
> > > I'd save an old copy of anything you modify, so as to make
> > > recovery from mistakes, easy....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Felipe Ribeiro
> > felipernb@gmail.com
> > 83 9979-3161
> > --
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> >
> >
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Projector on my laptop

[Jon Schlueter]

did you hit the function+F5  or the equivalent to switch where the
video is displayed, LCD/external/both ?

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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Projector on my laptop

[Felipe Ribeiro]

yeah, i tried.

On 12/11/06, Jon Schlueter <jon.schlueter@gmail.com> wrote:
> did you hit the function+F5  or the equivalent to switch where the
> video is displayed, LCD/external/both ?
>
> Jon Schlueter
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>
>


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