[Libdlo] Intro / 10 monitor DisplayLink project

[Hal Glenn]

Hello everyone,

I'm just getting into the DisplayLink for linux stuff and I'm hopping 
that some of the things I do for my current project can help the list. I 
recently made a large demo board with 10 7" touchscreen MIMO monitors in 
it. Initially I had hoped to run them all off once PC but alias that did 
not prove to be possible with the current state of the DL link drivers . 
I had a rocky start to the project as I was under the impression that I 
could run all 10 from one PC (MAC actually) but that proved not to be 
the case, as I got further into it I found there are inherent limits in 
the DL software for mac at 4 monitors and Windows at 6 monitors. MiMo 
does not document this well.

So I ended up making it all work using two PC's with all my app's 
written in PyQT. 10 apps on 10 monitors all talking over sockets.

What I'm trying to do now is convert everything over to ubunto 9.10 (or 
whatever). Initially I'd like to try and set up 10 instances of X each 
starting GDM and then selecting the app to start for each monitor with 
the mimo touchscreen.

I'll keep you all updated on my progress and if there is some info you 
would like from me or things that I can help you to test please let me 
know. I'm sure I'll be bothering you all as well as the project movies 
forward.

-- 
Hal Glenn