[geeks] laptop as monitor for headless server

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:

> Subject: [geeks] laptop as monitor for headless server
> 
> has anybody tried something like this or has a better solution.

USB-to-serial converter plugged into the console port of the server.

> I want to use a laptop as a monitor for some monitor-less servers. I
> am thinking of using a VGA-to-TV converter together with a USB TV
> tuner.
>
> Any thoughts?

It's going to look really, really bad.  You might be able to squint out
80x25 lines of text, but it's still going to be very ugly.

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