This photograph sums up everything that has gone wrong in the recent ten years of hardware development:
I wonder why there must be any hardware adapter at all. Projectors should accept non-proprietary wireless connections from computers.
Ten years ago, the situation was even much better. There was only VGA and it worked out of the box because 1024×768 was the common standard resolution of computers and projectors.
So: please do something about it. Now.