I run ubuntu on my laptop and my problem is that I can't connect to projector.
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Jump to PostIs the projector physically connected to the laptop before you boot your laptop? Or are you plugging it in after the laptop has booted?
I often plug my Linux laptop into a projector at work. The only times I've ever had problems is when I plug the projector in after …
Jump to PostI have also found that if you go into the System->Preferences->Display page, you can usually get it to find the new display device (projector) and set that to be the output device, or set the display to mirror the output on both the laptop and projector at the same time.
Jump to PostOk. That has worked for me in the past. Sometimes it takes a few minutes for it to be detected, but then my last Ubuntu distribution that I used for any such purposes was 9.04. That one worked great with plug-in projectors - I used it to teach classes and …
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