From: Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Fri 19 Apr 2002 - 13:01:49 IST
On Friday 19 April 2002 12:54, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> TTTT, I included it only as a logical possibility, but you could
> conceivably want a "private" mode, so no one has a clue what your ppt
> presentation is going to look like ahead of time.
Not something that requires hardware support :)
> My experience with the Inspiron 4000 has been good, except once,
> for a paper presentation -- the IT guy came and looked and fiddled,
> and sucked his teeth and said "your system doesn't export video
> correctly" (I was too polite to tell him what I thought of that).
> It turned out that there was a bent pin on the cable. Otherwise
> Plug'n'Go.
Yeah, I've seen the bent pin problem too. Those things get plugged in
and out so much that it's bound to happen... But I've had problems
with the bizarre windows control panel, trying to get the thing into a
resolution that the external projector likes, getting it working in linux
with a data projector was fun too. You might as well have been using the
"private" mode for all the use it was :)
I'm not sure which model it was though.
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