The swinging display needs a connector

[RedFury]

Wow, this section is pretty much done for, eh? Well, hopefully I'll get a hit through new posts.

I picked up this Old rack server display out of an industrial junk pile ( not sure if it works yet )

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/s...600/index.html

All I got was the screen, but I was hoping to be able to use it somehow. Anyone have any idea how I could use this thing? I'm not familiar with laptop style displays, much less a TFT display, but the screen area is the same size as my 17" CRT. I was thinking if I could manage to fanagle some kind of connection so I could connect it to my video card..... I figure I got it for free, if I screw it up, I'm out nothing.

[SpaceSquad]

As far as those rackmount keyboard/monitor dealies go, they connect via a serial-like comm port (USB for newer ones)...don't believe it'd connect to a PC. The screen itself, apart, will be pretty much useless as laptop screens have non-standard (proprietary) interfaces which a non-laptop computer couldn't use.

AFAIK, you simply have something pretty to look at.

[RedFury]

Well, this one has 3 connections on it, two smaller, and one larger. The larger one has 22 or so pins, red green and brown wires. The smaller two ..one has 4 wires, the other has 6 - both multiple colored wires. I was told by the qwest tech that was out here on a glance that the larger connector ( short ) was the power connector.

Meh, I think I'll just dismantle it and see what I can learn.

[#43 fan]

Why not try and learn something. You don't have anything to lose.
hence why I use this computer as a test bed for Linux.