<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, john-thomas richards <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:44:57PM -0500, Steve Romanow wrote:<br>
>> On 2/15/2010 1:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >With the exception of the display, it's easy enough to accomplish by<br>
>> >just plugging in a second keyboard and mouse. That's what I have going<br>
>> >on in my home-theater setup at home.<br>
>> ><br>
>> >As for the display, I have each display show up as a different screen.<br>
>> >(The TV is at :0.1, the desk is :0.0) If you enable xinerama, both<br>
>> >displays become part of :0.0, which has conveniences as far as<br>
>> >dragging windows around. (I don't use it that way, though, because it<br>
>> >breaks vdpau, which I need for hardware-accelerated h264 decoding.)<br>
>> ><br>
>> I like Mikes thinking. If your laptop doesnt have the hardware,<br>
>> this <<a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=usb+video+card&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=13793920276800844395&ei=tJV5S8HIDciAnQfw85HHCQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB8Q8wIwAA#ps-sellers" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=usb+video+card&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=13793920276800844395&ei=tJV5S8HIDciAnQfw85HHCQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB8Q8wIwAA#ps-sellers</a>><br>
>> may help.<br>
><br>
> I don't know that I've ever seen such a beast. Crazy. A USB VGA port.<br>
> I think that, along with Mike's idea of a wireless keyboard/mouse will<br>
> work for me.<br>
<br>
Take a look at the Newegg reviews:<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16812200034" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16812200034</a><br>
<br>
USB2 is only 400Mb/s. 640x480x24bpp@60Hz is 421.875Mb/s. A more<br>
reasonable 1280x1024x24bpp@60Hz is 1800 Mb/s.<br>
<br>
Don't expect a stellar refresh rate; more like VNC over a slow DSL<br>
connection. An extension cord run to your laptop's VGA, DVI or HDMI<br>
port is better. (And probably cheaper, too!)<br>
<font color="#888888"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"> </font></font></font></blockquote><div>USB 2 is nominally 480 Mbps. Half</div><div>that would be the expected actual </div>
<div>performance.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_2</a></div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>