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

[Micha Feigin]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:47 +0200
Micha Feigin <michf at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800
> Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> 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 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.

There was also this post:
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I tackled this today with a T41 and found this page which was quite
helpful:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

I found that reconfiguring the xserver-xorg package (Debian Unstable)
left me with an almost empty xorg.conf, but it worked!  I was playing
with a Samsung 22 inch LCD TV and it worked out very well.  I didn't
try multi-screen, though I have no doubt that it probably would have
worked.