[Speakers] Shorts

[Greg Mason]

If you remember my presentation, I have a 15 inch PowerBook and it 
"Just Works" with pretty much anything you plug into it. The screen 
aspect doesn't really matter, just remember a DVI to VGA adapter. Hit 
F7 (or fn-F7 if you've altered the Keyboard settings for this) or turn 
on or disable screen mirroring. Another thing to try is close the lid 
of the powerbook, and then plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. It will 
wake up and use the attached display as it's main display, functioning 
like a desktop. I use this feature all the time with a nice 19" CRT I 
have at school...

also, have you tried out Apple's native X11 server, as well as their 
dev tools? Worth at least a look... Apple has gcc and friends bundled 
with their dev tools.

Another thing you may want to look at is Gentoo's Portage MacOS. 
They've ported their Portage system over to Mac OS X. Its pretty 
slick...

I originally thought of dual-booting, but OS X has been able to do 
everything I've needed or wanted so far... If you still want to 
dual-boot, Yellow Dog Linux or Gentoo might be a better bet.

-Greg

On Mar 10, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Bruce Smith wrote:

>>> The only bad thing is I'm not sure I can connect the PowerBook to our
>>> projector since it has a wide-aspect display (16x9).
>>
>> We can try it next week if you'll be there.
>
> I plan on being there.  Remind me to try it.
>
>  - BS