I have a headless computer that every once in a while has something go wrong enough with it that the vnc server doesn’t start and I have to go plug a monitor into it to figure it out.
I’m looking to replace the monitor that sits on a shelf and has to be hauled around with something small and cheap for those cases. This is the only monitor I have any more, and I’d love to just get rid of it. The computer has DisplayPort and HDMI and… maybe DVI video output, so one of those.
Maybe there’s a way to use a tablet? I have an old junky Kindle Fire tablet that I’m happy to dedicate to the cause.
When you say “monitor” to you mean a CRT or an LCD? Around here I can get a smallish LCD monitor at most $15 at a thrift store.
If you want to go real small, there are several small LCD screens for Raspberry Pis and such (usually HDMI). But for ~$30 the resolution isn’t so great. OTOH, if you need just a basic text screen this might work.
There are people on eBay that will sell you a graphics card interface to match certain LCD screens you’ve scavenged from someplace (laptops, etc.). But it’d be cheaper to just buy a monitor for something like this.
Yeah, an LCD. I already have a normal LCD monitor. I’m looking for something tiny. Tablet-sized. I don’t care much about resolution, since I only need to use this to troubleshoot pretty low-level stuff.
The vnc server already starts up automatically. And I can restart it by toggling the power switch. But if it doesn’t come up to the point where the vnc server starts, then I need to connect a screen to it to figure out why.