what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

[Meir Kriheli]

Michael Shiloh wrote:
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> Micha Feigin wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800
>> Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Big Lesson:
>>> Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to
>>> display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen
>>> resolution applet, the Thinkpad Fn buttons, and rebooting, and
>>> truthfully, I'm not sure exactly what did it. We finally got it to
>>> work mirroring my laptop screen, so I didn't have any secrets -
>>> whatever I typed was in front of the audience. This actually was
>>> amusing because I opened a terminal to invoke kuickshow. Later
>>> someone from the audience came up and said "Wow, you do robots, fire,
>>> and command line. Really cool." (The talk was about machine art.)
>>>
>>
>> What thinkpad  and what graphics card?
>>
> 
> T60
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> Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
> (from lshw)

I have the same one on my X60s. Connecting VGA and running:
xrandr --auto

Worked for me so far on various projectors (for clone mode).

Cheers
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Meir Kriheli