Hello all.  I was wondering if anyone has connected  or has attemped to connect a USB Mini Monitor.  I have a Mimo 7" mini Monitor which I thought would be cool to use with my Unraid setup since I dont have anything the the Power, USB Key, and the Ethernet Cable.  I was thinking instead of of trying to undo my setup just to connect to my server in an emergency case, I could just use this mini monitor and my roll up keyboard.

 

Any ideas? Is this possible?  Is this the right Section for the question? 

 

Thanks

 

Hello all.  I was wondering if anyone has connected  or has attemped to connect a USB Mini Monitor.  I have a Mimo 7" mini Monitor which I thought would be cool to use with my Unraid setup since I dont have anything the the Power, USB Key, and the Ethernet Cable.  I was thinking instead of of trying to undo my setup just to connect to my server in an emergency case, I could just use this mini monitor and my roll up keyboard.

 

Any ideas? Is this possible?  Is this the right Section for the question? 

 

Thanks

The questions to ask are:

Is there a lunix driver for it?

Is the driver included in unRAID?

 

The first may not exist, and even if it does, I sincerely doubt if it is in unRAID.  you can always compile your own drivers, if you set up a development Slackware environment.

 

Joe L.

 

 

Hey Joe L.  Thanks for the reponse.  I did some research and found that there are Linux drivers for it... the problem is that I am not much of a linux guru... and never had to complie my own drivers.  but if know of a great guide how to do it I would be grateful.  I guess this would be a project to explore.  I pasted a snippet of what the website offers

 

Thanks

 

 

Specific Drivers - Taken from http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki

 

• 
  Linux
  Current Driver Locations, culled from this thread.
     
  • FrameBuffer Driver. Standard X driver updated to use DisplayLink devices.
       
  • DisplayLink Driver. X driver just for DisplayLink devices.
       
  • Kernel DisplayLink Driver from Google Code.
       
  • Or use the driver shipped with kernel 2.6.38 or more recent.

 

Older drivers and locations:

   

• udlfb is the original displaylink kernel framebuffer driver, without dynamic mode support and a few minor features, but fully functional and present in kernel versions 2.6.31 and later, and    enabled by default in some recent distros (Ubuntu 9.10).
     
• displaylink-mod is a updated branch of the udlfb driver by the same author (Roberto)
     
• displaylinkfb is a new branch written by Jaya Kumar, targeted at embedded via defio and no in-kernel shadow framebuffer, which uses the standard fbdev X servers
     
• xf86-driver-displaylink X Server written by Roberto which works with both udlfb and displaylink-mod

 

OpenBSD

   

• udl OpenBSD kernel text and graphics console driver
     
• xf86-driver-wsudl X driver for OpenBSD's udl(4) driver using the wscons(4) framework.
  

The driver is in the kernel. You may have to enable it in the go file. Try it.