Re: [seul-edu] Need advice with LCD projector

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

I tried generic vga but it didn't work. I was using the projector with no
monitor. Do you think maybe I have to have a monitor connected through the
projector's output connection?
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: h <jhuns@vt.edu>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Need advice with LCD projector


>generic vga 640x480 works on our old sharp with mandrake linux with an ibm
1400i
>laptop. but i don't keep both configured at the same time.
>
>Dave Prentice wrote:
>
>> To anybody,
>>     My school just received a donation of a Sharp XG-E850U projector. It
has
>> composite, BNC, and 15 pin VGA, with a choice of digital or analog. The
>> resolution is only 640x480. (For free, I can live with that!) It's
several
>> years old and came without a manual. It displays just fine in text mode
>> using the 15 pin analog input.
>>     I know the graphics mode would work fine with Windoze, but I want to
use
>> it with Gnome under Linux (RedHat 7.1) to do presentations. I can't
figure
>> out what answer to give in Xconfigurator for the monitor type. No matter
>> what I try, I get the message that there is a problem with the X
>> configuration. I can't locate info on the internet about horizontal and
>> vertical sync frequencies. Can anybody help?
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Prentice
>> prentice@instruction.com