In article <siegman-CD2566.16125328042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, AES
<siegman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> What's the drill for getting optimal mirroring of a MacBook Pro 17"
> running Leopard to a few year old projector which I'm pretty sure is
> either VGA or XGA? Projector is thus 4:3 aspect ratio, while MacBook is
> 16:9 (or something like that)
>
> If Mirroring is turned on in the Monitor prefs panel, it seems to
> function OK; projected images have the correct aspect ratio and look OK
> on the projector screen; but the images seen on the MacBook Pro screen
> are evidently stretched to fill the full screen width, and thus becomes
> visibly distorted.
>
> Turning Mirroring off brings up a whole bunch of new resolutions to
> choose from, including some labeled N X M and N X M (stretched) with
> the same N and M values; but I don't seem to be able to drag either
> window on top of the other in the Arrangements tab.
>
> Any way to make the MacBook screen mirror the projector screen, i.e.
> display using the projector aspect ratio, leaving black bars at the
side?
A 4:3 "NxM" setting (without the "stretched") on the laptop should
result in black bars on the sides...at least it does so on mine. Then,
turn mirroring on. I don't have a projector with which to try this, but
it works going to an old 1024x768 LCD monitor that dates back to my B&W
G3.
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Spenser
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