USB video?

[Richard Kolb II]

A couple of pis with hdmi monitors running something like what the piwall
does would allow multiple monitors on just about anything.  I wonder how
fast that would be.


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

> 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 adapters to what the rest of the world does.
>
> Why do servers still have VGA + PS/2?  Because most KVMs haven't
> switched?  FWIW, I still have a KVM that will do serial mice.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-02-04 12:22, Brian St. Pierre wrote:
>> [...]
>> > That listing shows HDMI and mini displayport.
>>
>> Errrr... 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 that
>> video-over-USB was a pretty hack solution (though I suppose USB 3.0
>> might make it marginally less hack-ish).
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Ken
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