[81265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: NOC Display's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Jun 2 09:47:17 2005
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:46:09 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFDB69B68B.DDA5B532-ON85257014.00469449-85257014.0046EEBB@dot.state.oh.us>; from Spencer Wood <Spencer.Wood@dot.state.oh.us> on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:54:39AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:54:39AM -0400, Spencer Wood wrote:
> Anyway, in our NOC we current have two LCD projectors displaying
> outputs from two different computers. On one of the display's, I
> would like to be able to take 4 VGA outputs from 4 workstations, and
> display it on the screen (aka: Hollywood square style). Does anyone
> have any recommendations for an inexpensive device that will take care
> of this? I have found some nice devices in the 10k price range, which
> needless to say is a little outside the budget. Security companies
> sell these devices for Video for around $500, so I'm figure someone
> should have a VGA version of the device.
A VGA (much less XVGA, which is probably what you really need) quad
splitter is likely to be pricey as crap. I'd recommend looking at
using VNC from the workstation you have now to pick up the screens you
need. Check out:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/doc/vnc/extras.html
and specifically John Wilson's VNCMonitor, at:
http://www.wilson.co.uk/Software/vnc/VncMonitor.htm
which sounds like it will do the splitting for you. I've never used it
personally, but it sounds like it might do what you need.
Cheers,
-- jra
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