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[Mike Diehn]

The why of the problem is that until very recently, no-one has done  
much with automating configuration changes to the X config files.  In  
many distros, we're still hacking xorg.conf by hand to tune stuff and  
wow - it's really archane sometimes.

So, it's not a capability thing, it's a "how the hell does this bolt  
fit in that hole?" thing.  Like a nightmare of assembling big toys on  
Christmas eve...  after too much egg nog.

Here's some things I've found with google.  Then a long meander  
through my fantasy land....

These may be a bit dated:
   http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html
   http://www.astro.umd.edu/%7Eteuben/linux/laptop-display.html

This one seems pretty detailed and makes sense to me and it's current.
    
http://techxplorer.com/2007/11/15/getting-a-projector-to-work-under-ubuntu-linux-with-nvidia-drivers/

So, if we get clue and can connect something well - like Glen did, I  
think we'll be well served by using VNC after that.

Put one machine up there on the podium connected to the overhead and  
run VNC Server on it.  Then we shy bastards in the back can project  
without ever leaving our seats... :-)

But seriously.  VNC server at the podium, and VNC viewers on our  
laptops.  Most current distros have it already.  There's a DMG for Mac  
and an MSI for Windows.

Even more interesting would be something that many users can connect  
with that would have a mouse pointer for each client, some sort of  
annotation paint-like function for each client, maybe keyboard input  
focus sharing of some sort.  Or at least one keyboard input per  
application.  Like, a couple of Tomboy notes and a few xterms open at  
once, all of us typing away at the same time, pointing at each other's  
code with our cursors, writing obscenities with the annotation  
feature....  [did I really type that last one out loud]  Hmmm...

Wow.  That sounds really fun!  Why wouldn't that be worth doing... OK,  
that's a whiteboard app isn't it?  Googling....

Nope - nothing interesting about whiteboards that do that yet.  Lot's  
of OT stuff about web services, though....

CYA,

Best,
Mike


Bill McGonigle <[e-mail addresses are not shown in archives]> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 10:15, Mike Diehn wrote:
>
>> Quite the technically frustrating evening it was for some of us at our
>> Thursday meeting, eh?
>
>
> Yeah, no kidding.
>
> Is there anybody here who understands _why_ linux systems have such a
> hard time syncing up to projectors?
>
> Alternately, if we had a known hardware platform to hook up to
> projectors, are there any good systems for networking the displays?
> The best I can come up with is to hook up a local ethernet cable and
> have folks ready to run X over ssh.  Others like NX are technically
> superior but unlikely to be installed and configured on most folks'
> machines.
>
> Somebody must have a better idea?
>
> -Bill
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