2008.11: Everyday projectors

I regularly use my for presentations and demonstrations, which in the past has involved some configuration gymnastics. If your laptop has NVIDIA graphics, the “NVIDIA X Server Settings” Preferences panel lets you configure for most projectors, but if you didn’t have an NVIDIA graphics adaptor, configuration was arduous and fragile. With 2008.11, we get GNOME 2.24; the 2.24 Screen Resolution panel, reachable from the desktop background menu, makes configuration accessible to a wider range of adaptors, including the Intel graphics in my Toshiba r500.

So I made another little film:

Again, you can retrieve this video directly from channelsun.

[ T: OpenSolaris GNOME Toshiba projector ]

Update 2020-05-02: channelsun.sun.com is long gone, but I found the original video and uploaded it to YouTube.