VGA card recommendation for dockstar debian

I have an unused VGA LCD monitor sitting in the closet, and wonder if I can make use of it. I was thinking of playing movies from a dockstar debian squeeze. Does anyone have recommendation for an inexpensive USB VGA adapter? Thank you.

jrey Wrote:
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> Does anyone have recommendation for an inexpensive USB VGA adapter? Thank you.

See this thread on the Targus docking station. They're very cheap on eBay these days.

I heard that USB2VGA is much slower than USB2VGA2 (and much cheaper as well). Do I need USB2VGA2 for streaming movie to the LCD monitor?

USB2VGA and most other options will be too slow for streaming video at any resolution unless its just a slideshow. USB2VGA makes a useable 1024x768 desktop though.

Display link adapters are the most efficient option as they have some compression support that helps with the USB bandwidth limitations and they can handle streaming video from a regular PC (at lower resolutions) but the dockstar would likely struggle given its limited RAM and CPU.

-PG

Thanks PG. I think I will give up on this monitor as the price for the displaylink adapter is about the price of another monitor anyway.