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

[Micha Feigin]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800
Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> 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?
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> T60
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> Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
> (from lshw)
> 

I was given this link now on the linux-thinkpad group
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
Several people reported using mirrored desktops dynamically. Also dual screen,
but apparently dri fails if the virtual desktop is more than 2048x2048 so you
may have a problem with videos and 3d when using dual desktops.