Failure to Project OOImpress

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Paul B. Mahol wrote:

> Was it connected prior or after Xorg startup?

I think we connected prior.  Should we have?  I had my
computer turned off, and I booted it up. The projector
was on during boot.  I thought the boot process would
take care of it but it didn't.

>
> On 3/14/08, KAYVEN RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Couldn't connect to projector for presentation.
>>
>> I was supposed to give a class presentation and we tried to hook
>> my computer  into the 15 pin female joint (sorry I forget what it is
>> called three rows of 5 pins each on the computer, hooking to 15 pins
>> on the wire) that I guess is usually a monitor connector.  The professor
>> kept saying "hit function-f8" but that didn't go.
>>
>> I am running gnome on freeBSD
>>
>> [kayve at kv_bsd ~]$ uname -a
>> FreeBSD kv_bsd 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC
>> 2007     root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>> [kayve at kv_bsd ~]$
>>
>>
>> He said it was all about BIOS, but we were trying to hit func-f8 during
>> gnome running, so I thought
>> I would get a second opinion.
>>
>> Here is a link with pictures of the model decal:
>>
>> http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/dmesg/index.vhtml
>>
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   Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics)
   (415) 902 5513 cellular
   http://kayve.net
   Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org
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