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

[Michael Shiloh]

Meir Kriheli wrote:
> Michael Shiloh wrote:
>>
>> Micha Feigin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800
>>> Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> 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).
> 

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try your and Micha's suggestions.

Thanks much,
Michael