Video Card for 75 foot cable run

[NoOp]

On 08/09/2009 03:55 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
> I'm a high school [U.S.] English teacher who received a ceiling-mounted 
> video projector for my classroom over the summer.  The cable run from my 
> desktop to the video projector is about 50 feet [15.24 meters]. Last 
> year, I used a cart-mounted projector and a 100 foot [30 meters] long vga 
> cable (Didn't need that much but it was the next size up from the 10 
> footers the school had).  My old Gateway laptop would not "drive" the 
> video projector.  When I connected to the cable to the desktop (a Dell), 
> I had no problems.
> 
> Due to the way they installed the thing, I will have to run a vga cable 
> across my desk to get to the connectors for the video projector.  I'd 
> like to avoid that.
> 
> My question is, how or what do I take into account on a video card to 
> determine ahead of time that it has the needed capacity?  I thought of a 
> new Netbook, but I'm just assuming that the video card will be 
> insufficient.  
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 (Shh.  Don't tell the school; they think I'm 
> using Windows).  I won't have access to my school computer for a couple 
> more days, so I can't tell you what the video card I've been using is.  
> It is "builtin" -- if that is the term -- to the motherboard.
> 
> Thanks in advance your help.

Might be cheaper & easier to just set up an old desktop/laptop w/Ubuntu
close to the projector as a 'projector server' + hub/switch and then
just connect to that via long ethernet cable. You could do the same via
wifi, but that will cost more than a 50/100' ethernet cable will. Set up
NX or freeNX on both systems & then just NX into the projector machine
to run your presentations.

http://www.nomachine.com/
http://freenx.berlios.de/