USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hey, all. I'm considering getting a teeny little system (http://tinyurl.com/q4a6pv6) for home use to replace my laptop -- sadly, I find that 4 GB that's on my laptop just isn't cutting it these days, and I'll need to make the jump to 8 GB. (Isn't that 1024 times what I had on my first

Re: USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Anyway, I really like the two monitor thing I have going with the laptop, and the one thing that the Intel box doesn't have is a VGA port. Does anyone have any experience with USB video adapters under *nix? Any suggestions?

Re: USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On 2014-02-04 12:22, Brian St. Pierre wrote: [...] That listing shows HDMI and mini displayport. E... wow. Thanks! I've never even heard (or, at least, noticed) about displayport before; that's a new connector for me to file away. And, clearly, the optimal way to fly; I've always felt

Re: USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Buskey
We're so used to having a VGA port and maybe PS/2 keyboard + mouse that we think it odd when they're not there :-) Now it's all USB and HDMI (or Displayport) with adapters to the old stuff if needed. The Raspberry Pi has HDMI and USB FWIW. My old Mac Mini has mini-DVI and mini-Displayport and

Reminded me, Video web cam?

2014-02-04 Thread Curt Howland
I've been thinking of picking up a webcam for use in hangouts, skype, etc, and I don't want to spend the money for something that isn't going to work. Anyone have any problems with the mainline brands like Logitec, or some of the, ah, cheaper ones? :^) Cheap is good. -- The secret of

Re: Reminded me, Video web cam?

2014-02-04 Thread David Hardy
I've had two Logitech webcams, one cheap, one not so cheap; the latter is an HD Pro Webcam C920 and works great ($75 on Amazon). On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: I've been thinking of picking up a webcam for use in hangouts, skype, etc, and I don't want

Re: USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Buskey
Each RasPI has 100T and I from my skim of piwall, it runs VNC. Something like synergy might be interesting. I've been using an RasPI running raspbian as a thin client. I'll xfreerdp to Windows VMs or SSH to Linux. If I was doing major graphics it'd be too slow. But to remotely get to the