Re: [LUG] Meeting

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

frank black wrote:
>  Hope I can make it on Thu, driving lesson at 6pm and dissertation in next
> day; it's gonna be tight.
>
>  I can see a lack of monitors/keyboards being a problem. Will there be
> enough keyboards/monitors/whatever to go round?

Yes, there should be plenty.

>  There's something you can use that allows you to use 2 monitors, 2 mice
> and 2 keybowards in X, but I can't remember the name of it. I thought it
> was called synergy but that doesn't seem quite right.

These have been around for years, but typically as an "only support 
Windows option".

>  Basically you use a PCI graphics card (£1/3 from Plym Computer Warehouse
> shop allows dual monitor xinerama setup), a USB keyboard and a usb mouse.

It's possible to operate a PS/2 mouse port as a keyboard port.

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