• SMARTBoard

Installing the software for SMARTBoards on Ubuntu Linux has proved to be a bit of a pain. The following is what seems to work best for us.

• Hardware - at the moment, the Linux/Unix versions of SMARTTech's software support *only serial port connections* to the board, not USB. I don't know if USB/serial converters (for machines with no serial port) will work correctly or not. (But I may give it a try with my laptop soon.)

• Software - The SMARTBoard software can be obtained from http://www.smarttech.com/support/software/unix.asp

  1. Get the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 version. There is nothing particularly RHEL3 specific about this package, but see the next step.

     • NOTE: The Mandrake, SuSE, and Red Hat versions are all the same and require an obsolete library - this version will not install on any version of Ubuntu later than Hoary (5.04).

  2. switch to the directory where you saved the downloaded file

  3. chmod +x RHEL_SMART_Board_Software.bin

  4. install with root privileges - sudo ./RHEL_SMART_Board_Software.bin

  5. install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (OK, so it's sort of obsolete, but not AS obsolete) using either synaptic or apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

  6. create a symlink to the library with the name the software wants - sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

SMART Board User Settings under Windows

It seems that, in Notebook 10, SMART have decided to store configuration information relevant to the Floating Tools in MULTIPLE PLACES AT THE SAME TIME. This makes it really ornery to try to reset user settings to their defaults once they've been screwed up because if you don't wipe out ALL of the configuration information, the information you're trying to get rid of re-propagates out the next time you run the SMART Board Tools.

In order to *TRULY* get rid of any user-specific SMART Board Settings, we need to:

1. Log off the user entirely from every computer.
2. Log in as Administrator and delete the "c:\Documents and Settings\username" folder

3. DO NOT RUN ANY SMART SOFTWARE BETWEEN THESE STEPS.

4. Log into the file server serving the users's home folder and navigate to their home folder - rm -rf ApplicationData/SMART*

5. Now log in as the user and run the SMART Board Tools.