Re: [Soekris] net6501: are the E6xx LVDS pins available as pads anywhere?

[Andrew]

Thank you for that link.  I have been looking for "terminal emulators" and I have found the PockeTerm http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=6, the Spare Time Gizmos VT6 http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/VT.htm and the $360 (ouch!) NTI SERIMUX Terminal Converter http://www.kvms.com/Product/SERIMUX-TERM.aspx. The MicroVGA seems like the lowest cost solution, I just need to add a bit of perf board, a header, a MAX231CPD and two (tantalum) caps.  As a benefit, there's a spare pair of drivers for the second serial port. Soren, I understand why the E6xx integrated video is not useful because of the supervisory LPC processor, and you would have to implement a video BIOS.  Have you considered using the supervisor MCU as the terminal emulator to generate the VGA video?  It could pass through the serial data and only inject characters if a PS2 keyboard were used.  Looking at the MicroVGA, we've come a long way from Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter (I still have the "Cookbook," dog eared, packed away in a box some where). Thanks again, Andrew   RSL wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:28:47PM -1000, Andrew wrote: Hi, I've been looking into upgrading my aging firewall from a pentium-m running FBSD 4+ to something more recent. Since I've stumbled over the net6501, I have tried researching it as much as possible. My firewall is also my GPS strat-1 NTP server, UPS monitor and DHCP server, among other services. Because I use a KVM to switch VGA between servers, I am looking at a simple VGA solution for the net6501. [...] Thanks- Andrew If you only need VGA, mouse and KB to manage your system within a text console using a KVM, I suggest you take a look at http://www.microvga.com/ They produce a small and cheap (VGA + 2x PS/2 connectors) <-> (RS232) conversion module that could solve one of your problem. RSL

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