I was mistaken, HDMI to VGA is looking to be a challenge...<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:00 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;">The HDMI cable doesn't carry an analog signal, so you'd need an active<br>
converter device to render the HDMI data to a buffer and retransmit as<br>
VGA. If the screen has HDMI support already, that's different, and<br>
great.<br>
<br>
I like the SD card slot for a hard drive, too, but it's still<br>
important how large a card a given board supports. (And this board is<br>
Arm, which won't easily work for our needs. I don't want to trust an<br>
open-source Flash implementation, as they're not completely<br>
compatible.)<br>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Casey DuBois <<a href="mailto:casey@grlug.org">casey@grlug.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I Like the SD card slot for Hard Drive and yes you can go from HDMI back to<br>
> VGA.<br>
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, megadave <<a href="mailto:megadave@gmail.com">megadave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hrm.. all taht USB can be hubbed. And this uses an SD card slot as its<br>
>> "hard drive", so no need for IDE or SATA.. And it has ethernet.<br>
>><br>
>> The only issue might be the video - can you get from HDMI to VGA? I've<br>
>> never used HDMI, so dont know much about it. What other video inputs<br>
>> does that touchscreen have?<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 14:45, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Casey DuBois <<a href="mailto:casey@grlug.org">casey@grlug.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> That's the kind of device I wanted to use in the Kiosk.<br>
>> >> Thinking we're needing something a little larger with more ports.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Ports requirements, IIRC, are:<br>
>> > * One(1) VGA port, or DVI-I and a DVI->VGA adapter<br>
>> > * One(1) USB port for One(1) RS-232 serial port for the touchscreen's<br>
>> > input (USB is the most convenient)<br>
>> > * One(1) USB port for the ticket printer.<br>
>> > * One(1) USB port for the cash reader.<br>
>> > * One(1) USB port, one(1) SATA port or one(1) IDE port for booting the<br>
>> > OS. (Unless we talk about netboot again)<br>
>> > * One(1) ethernet port for network access.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > That's minimum, and can even be worked downward a little with a USB<br>
>> > hub or expansion card. Anything else is gravy.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I know Adobe Flash runs on Arm (it's running on my Xoom), but I don't<br>
>> > know if they have an Arm Flash plugin for Linux. So a low-power x86<br>
>> > processor would be ideal. AMD's low-power Bulldozer might even be<br>
>> > appropriate. What's the lowest wattage x86 processor around that can<br>
>> > handle Adobe Flash?<br>
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