--- Forwarded Message from Peter Lafford <[log in to unmask]> --- >Disposition-notification-to: [log in to unmask] >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:30:00 -0700 >From: Peter Lafford <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #7388 Laptops that don't project? >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Thread-Topic: #7388 Laptops that don't project? >Thread-Index: AcPnYvQh8h57KgpxTBaUpBI/3uLb1AAG5Kfw ------------------ It may not be missing anything, but rather needs to have the desktop screen setting set to have the external monitor as the primary video display. In any windows since at Windows 98 on, 1. do a right-click on the desktop 2. Properties 3. Settings 4. Advanced 5. Display (I think)... then identify the video display device which should have the video showing. Details vary with the video adapter... some will show video only on one or the other; some on both, but you have to enable it. I bet this is the problem you are having. [log in to unmask] Director, Language Computing Lab Arizona State University 480-965-4524 -----Original Message----- From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:57 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #7388 Laptops that don't project? --- Forwarded Message from "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:39:12 -0800 >From: "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Laptops that don't project? Hi, I've just learned that the Toshiba laptops we check out to faculty will not project video (from a DVD or web-based video). Apparently they are missing some kind of special software that will allow that. One of our instructors has a less expensive Computerland laptop that will project video just fine. Does anyone know the generic name of the software and/or a brand name that will help us track down what we need? (Imagine the wrath of the instructor, having checked out the laptop expressly for showing a DVD or some other video clip, having schlepped the laptop to the newly wired classroom, made sure the projector cart was there, etc. etc, and then not being able to make the video visible for the class? ) Thank you! _______________________ Carol H. Reitan Technology Learning Center Instructor of French City College of San Francisco LB2, 50 Phelan Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 239-3554 _____________________________ [log in to unmask] http://fog.ccsf.edu/~creitan _____________________________