SMART Board SB640 Installation And User Manual page 36

Chapter 3
Connecting your interactive whiteboard to your computer
You can present the same desktop on all products, enabling people in different locations to view the same
image. To achieve this effect, daisy chain the projectors or use a distribution amplifier to send the
computer's video signal to more than one display or projector.
You can also present different views of the same desktop across interactive products. With this option, you
have the flexibility of opening one window on each screen, or splitting one application across multiple
screens. To set this up, you must send the video signal from the computer to each display or projector. To
do this, your setup must include one of the following:
A separate video card in your computer for each projector or each display
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A video card that splits the video signal and sends it to multiple displays
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A video distribution amplifier between your computer and the projectors or displays
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If you're stretching your computer's desktop across more than one interactive screen and you're using an
older operating system, you must tell SMART Product Drivers how your products are arranged. To do this,
open the SMART control panel, press SMART Board Settings, and then select Arrange Video Output from
the list. Depending on your setup, you might need to change your computer's display settings. For more
information, read the documentation for your computer's video card.
You must orient each interactive product separately so that the pointer is properly aligned when you touch
the product. To do this, open the SMART control panel and select Orient/Align the SMART Product. Refer
to the Help Center for the specific procedure to orient each display. To access the Help Center, press the
pen tray's Help button. For more information on the pen tray buttons, see Pen tray buttons on page 40.
After you set up your multiple displays, each display has touch control. However, some applications are
unable to accept cursor commands/mouse input from more than one source at a time. To enable the
multiple touch setting, refer to the topics in the Help Center for instructions.
For more information on setting up multiple SMART products, see Connecting Multiple SMART Board
Interactive Whiteboards to One Computer (smarttech.com/kb/000315).
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