[dundee] Advice re "powerpoint" digital projectors

[Mark Harrigan]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:36:19PM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:13, Fionnbar Lenihan wrote:
> > I've been asked to do a presentation in a week or so.  The projector
> > (connects to a laptop and displays a powerpoint show) will be supplied
> > by I'm using my own laptop.   This has, in the past, been used fine for
> > this purpose.  However that was in the days when it had a windows
> > partition.
> > 
> > Now when I need windows I run win4lin so have an entirely Mandrake
> > system.  The slides are in OO.org format so that's no problem.
> > 
> > My impression is that a projector is a purely hardware device which
> > needs no driver support on the PC end.  In other words it should be just
> > as happy getting a VGA feed from a linux box as a Win machine.  
> > 
> > Is that right?  I would hate to find otherwise on the day!
> > 
> 
> Yeah.. I think so, though I've never actually used such a thing.
> 
> 

They are, just be aware that they don't tend to run at such high
resolutions as standard monitors, make sure you have X setup for
800x600 or so before hand, just in case.

Mark