[LUNI] using laptop monitor for desktop monitor

[Mike Scott]

Pretty easy to RYO if you are moderately handy with a soldering iron.
You can also get the cable and null-modem adapter at Radio Shack.

- Mike Scott


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] using laptop monitor for desktop monitor
> From: "Jay Strauss" <me at heyjay.com>
> Date: Sun, May 13, 2007 10:55 am
> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion"
> <luni at luni.org>
> 
> On 5/13/07, Mike Scott <mscott at pyewacket.org> wrote:
> > Can the server BIOS be configured to use a serial port for I/O?
> > Then you could hook the laptop to the server with a null-modem cable
> and
> > just run a terminal emulator program on the laptop.
> >
> > - Mike Scott
> 
> I don't know about the BIOS.  I'll have to look.  I don't have a
> null-modem cable either.  I'm guessing I'll have to attach it to the
> CRT regardless
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