Re: USB video?

2014-02-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Though the RasPi doesn't have VGA because of cost I've read. They wanted to make sure it worked on TV which meant HDMI and composite. So maybe the cost was HDMI/Composite vs HDMI/Composite/VGA I'd suppose so. Plus, the

Re: USB video?

2014-02-17 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Why do servers still have VGA + PS/2? From what I see, most have VGA and USB, these days. Because most KVMs haven't switched? I'm not privy to their

Re: USB video?

2014-02-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Why do servers still have VGA + PS/2? From what I see, most have VGA and USB, these days. Because most KVMs haven't switched? I'm not privy to their design meetings, but I would suppose: VGA is cheaper, both to build a

USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Slackware install? Sheesh.) 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? Thanks

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

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