[Tfug] Use laptop as external kbd/monitor?

[jblais]

Someone may make something like this as a plug in for a laptop
http://www.datapath.co.uk/visRGBPRO.htm

http://www.1stvision.com/pcmcia.htm

Really just a frame grabber for an RGB signal
Then you need to do something for the keyboard!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:54 AM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: [Tfug] Use laptop as external kbd/monitor?
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of any way to use a laptop as an external 
> keyboard+monitor for 
> systems that are running headless and can't run VNC?  I  have a 
> number of Linux 
> boxes running stripped-down distros as firewalls or as 
> NAS-devices, and it's a 
> PITA to have to lug around a keyboard and a monitor to get to 
> them when I need 
> to troubleshoot beyond what I can do an SSH session.    
> 
> 
> 
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