The Gadgeteer Reviews Our Plugable UGA-2K-A

Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by in Windows

The Gadgeteer has been doing product reviews since 1997, and they just wrote a review of the Plugable UGA-2K-A.

A couple interesting things covered:

  • The usefulness of multiple monitors – once you’ve used them, it’s hard to go back to the limits of one screen.
  • They show using the DVI-to-HDMI adapter included with the UGA-2K-A, to add a 42″ LCD TV as a third laptop monitor. Nice!

And they summarize the review with this:

It does exactly what it claims it’s going to do. If I had to register any kind of complaint, I’d say that this could be considered a “gateway drug”…because if I can rock three monitors, what’s to stop me from six or eight?

Exactly what we think, too. Of course, by that analogy, we’re dealers …

One quick note: the review mentions our old pricing of $72.99. Fortunately, we’ve been able to increase our volumes and lower our prices as a result, so the UGA-2K-A is now $69.95. And because this technology is most exciting when it’s not just one but several extra monitors on a single PC — we’re also offering a temporary promotion of $10 off for every two you purchase. All the details are shown on Amazon.

If you don’t have extra monitors around, something like the Acer X203H bd 20-Inch LCD Monitor at 20″ diagonal and 1650×1080 resolution, is a good mid-range companion to one of our adapters. But again, any VGA, DVI, or HDMI monitor will do.

xorg-server 1.8.0 released

Posted on 02. Apr, 2010 by in UGA-2K-A

xorg-server 1.8.0 has been released.

There will still be some bugs and issues to resolve — but this release has most of the features, specifically related to input handling and udev-based dynamic configuration, of a more solid USB multiseat solution.

In short:

  • udev rules, which already can detect a grouping of USB devices that constitute a terminal, can now tell X to ignore or use particular devices more easily through udev attributes and more dynamic/independent xorg.conf.d scripts.
  • udev is now the default configuration mechanism (the torch has been passed from the less flexible hal)

So the challenges to explore are now more in the area of ConsoleKit integration and whether we can use these new capabilities support not just pure-USB multiseat setups, but also a mix of seats with PCIe attached graphics, and with fully USB seats.

OS X 10.6.3 and DisplayLink Rotation

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by in Using

There are reports of a few problems with the just-released OS X 10.6.3 update from Apple, and current DisplayLink drivers (1.5 and 1.6 beta) for Mac. In particular, displays in a rotated (portrait) configuration are corrupted. Switching back to standard unrotated mode is a workaround.

DisplayLink users on Mac might want to hold off on Apple’s update until any problems are shaken out.

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