[TriLUG] getting a powerbook to act like a monitor

[Andrew Ball]

I need to be able to see output for _everything_, including POST,
installations, and whatever OS is there, even though I'd hope that
everything just works and I could use VNC or FreeNX.

Peace.
Andrew

On 12/4/06, Wing D Lizard <wingedlizard at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> why not vnc?
>
> b\375
>
> Andrew Ball wrote:
> > Good morning.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to get a PowerBook to display video by
> > connecting
> > somehow to a regular VGA port on a PC?
> >
> > I've got a humongous monitor that I want to get rid of, but don't think
> I
> > will until
> > I can get some rudimentary video output.  A plain serial connection
> > would be
> > more trouble than its worth.
> >
> > If I can get this working, I'll have one monitor to donate :-).  It's
> > a 19
> > or 21 inch
> > Komodo, can't remember which.
> >
> > Peace.
> > Andrew
> >
>
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