What next?

[Andrew Overholt]

* Steven Garrity <stevelist at silverorange.com> [2005-06-01 20:04]:
> Kaj J. Niemi wrote:
> >I would like automatic second display support (when connecting your
> >laptop to a projector for example). So far I haven't been able to figure
> >out how to do it except restart X with different settings. IMHO, it's one
> >feature Apple's Powerbooks do really well running OS X.
> 
> After watching the video of the talks from Guadec, you can see that this 
> is a big problem. Almost every talk started off with 5 or 10 minutes of 
> fiddling to get the video-to-projector working. In some cases, the 
> presentation went on with partially broken displays.

I think part of the problem here was xrandr.  It seemed that when using the
dynamic resolution switching app (which I think uses xrandr), things didn't
work.  We ended up having to restart X using the resolution we wanted and
get the technician to re-sync the projector before our stuff worked (and by
'worked' I mean 'worked for all but ~5% of the bottom of the screen' ;) .

Andrew