[maemo-users] External Monitor with N800

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Dr. Nicholas Shaw" <Doc at DocHarley.com> writes:

> My wife would like to display presentations, that reside on the N800,
> directly to a monitor without using another computer (such as what I do with
> VNC).  In other words, presentation runs on the N800 and output displays on
> an external monitor.  
>
> I believe we had a similar discussion several months back.  Is this
> possible?  The answer was, I believe, no but I want to verify.

You are correct, N810 does not have video output. But there was a
similar question posted to lwn.net and someone suggested to use
USB2VGA for that:

http://lwn.net/Articles/254916/

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddVGAAdapter

It might or might not work. But this would be a hacker project, not
for normal users.

-- 
Kalle Valo