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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Message: 2<br>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:29:10 +0200<br>From: "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <<a href="mailto:jonathan@ubuntu.com">jonathan@ubuntu.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: Edubuntu - configuring for multiple monitor support<br>To: <a href="mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:48D78F96.3070809@ubuntu.com">48D78F96.3070809@ubuntu.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Hi Tom<br><br>Tom Reaney wrote:<br>> I would like to use Edubuntu and OpenOffice Impress to drive three<br>> seperate VGA video outputs for three monitors functioning as<br>
> message/information screens in a Secondary School.<br><br>Would these displays have to display the same information, or different<br>slideshows?</blockquote>
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<div>>>> Different slideshows</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> Assuming I put an appropriate video card in the PC - suggestions for ISA<br>> cards and drivers would be appreciated - is Impress capable of driving<br>
> three seperate video outputs simultaneously?<br><br>Perhaps you mean PCI or AGP slots? ISA cards aren't supported in many<br>Linux distributions. ISA slots are those big old black slots (picture on<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture</a>).</blockquote>
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<div>>>> Mea culps I did of course mean PCI not ISA!</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I've read previously that if you want to have unique content on each<br>display, you can only go up to 2. I think that you'll be able to get a<br>
cloned output with 3 displays with the tool that is available from the<br>Preferences menu (Labeled Screen Resolution). Do you already have the<br>hardware?</blockquote>
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<div>>>> No I don't have the hardware. I'm now thinking that I'll just use 3 seperate PC's to simplify matters.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-Jonathan<br><br></blockquote></div>