Driving projectors with laptops...

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JohnR

Driving projectors with laptops...
« on: 2 Sep 2008, 11:49 am »
I'm not entirely sure I'm in the right place... however here is my quandary. I have set up a projector (retired from the living room) in the proposed "den." It's native resolution is 854 x 480 (16:9 ratio). I would like to be able to connect a laptop to it on occasion... however, neither laptop I have tried (both running XP, one 1024x768 native and one 1280x800 native) have been able to set this as their native resolution.

Also, since I am in the market for a new laptop anyway, I wanted to check if candidates would support this resolution. I've not been able to find this information... :( (I'm looking at ThinkPads).

Anyway, suggestions appreciated.. thanks :)

Grumpy_Git

Re: Driving projectors with laptops...
« Reply #1 on: 2 Sep 2008, 02:16 pm »
John

Try powerstrip

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

or read tip 4 for here:

http://www.onlinesoftwareguide.com/0606xptips.html

Hope this helps

Nick.

jkelly

Re: Driving projectors with laptops...
« Reply #2 on: 2 Sep 2008, 02:26 pm »
Not sure if it will work in this case but Powerstrip is a very popular program
to use to program your graphics card for "other" resolutions.

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm