Comments on: Review of New DisplayLink Mac Beta Drivers http://mostlygeek.com/tech/review-of-new-displaylink-mac-beta-drivers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Smothered in Awesome Sauce! Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David S. Rose http://mostlygeek.com/tech/review-of-new-displaylink-mac-beta-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-23945 David S. Rose Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:38:13 +0000 http://www.mostlygeek.com/?p=330#comment-23945 OK, the LATEST DisplayLink beta drivers for the Mac (as of July 2, 2009) still have some significant problems. On testing with several MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, we found: 1) It sometimes takes a couple of cycles of reboots of the projector and/or the Mac in order to get things working properly. 2) There is a weird anomaly in PowerPoint, such that if you use the built-in Presenter Tools to display your notes and slides on the laptop, while sending the main presentation to the projector, the projected image is fine, but the display on the laptop bizarrely shifts the 'current slide' display downscreen by about 1/2 a screen height, which covers your notes. 3) There is an even weirder anomaly in Keynote, such that it simply won't work with the USB connection. Trying to do in two-screen mode gives you a bogus error message about not having enough VRAM, and trying to do it in mirror-mode shows the presentation on the laptop, but completely blanks out the projector. This is all very frustrating, because it has lots of potential...and we all know that Mac users make the best presenters... ;-) OK, the LATEST DisplayLink beta drivers for the Mac (as of July 2, 2009) still have some significant problems. On testing with several MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, we found:

1) It sometimes takes a couple of cycles of reboots of the projector and/or the Mac in order to get things working properly.

2) There is a weird anomaly in PowerPoint, such that if you use the built-in Presenter Tools to display your notes and slides on the laptop, while sending the main presentation to the projector, the projected image is fine, but the display on the laptop bizarrely shifts the ‘current slide’ display downscreen by about 1/2 a screen height, which covers your notes.

3) There is an even weirder anomaly in Keynote, such that it simply won’t work with the USB connection. Trying to do in two-screen mode gives you a bogus error message about not having enough VRAM, and trying to do it in mirror-mode shows the presentation on the laptop, but completely blanks out the projector.

This is all very frustrating, because it has lots of potential…and we all know that Mac users make the best presenters… ;-)

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