dragonbite
23rd January 2009, 08:10 PM
I was a the local computer club's meeting this week and we usually have a projector to plug into for demonstrations and presentation slides. Unfortunately this week the bulb blew so I went to "Plan B"; a fair-sized LCD monitor I put in front of my laptop facing the rest of the group (I saw my screen, they saw the LDC).
I was doing a demonstration of Wine on the Fedora 10 hard drive and things and after restarting X, it detected the external monitor and used it. Everything went pretty well (which means as expected).
Then I shut down Fedora and switch the hard drive with my Ubuntu hard drive (I have a second case so it is as simple as sliding out one hard drive and slide the next one in) which has Crossover installed.
Unfortunately when Ubuntu booted up it displayed the LCD monitor resolution which was way bigger than the 12" screen of the laptop so I could only see the top left corner of the screen! Made it a bit awkward, but the rest of the presentation went pretty well overall.
I was doing a demonstration of Wine on the Fedora 10 hard drive and things and after restarting X, it detected the external monitor and used it. Everything went pretty well (which means as expected).
Then I shut down Fedora and switch the hard drive with my Ubuntu hard drive (I have a second case so it is as simple as sliding out one hard drive and slide the next one in) which has Crossover installed.
Unfortunately when Ubuntu booted up it displayed the LCD monitor resolution which was way bigger than the 12" screen of the laptop so I could only see the top left corner of the screen! Made it a bit awkward, but the rest of the presentation went pretty well overall.
