[lug] Exporting display to android

[Stephen Queen]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com>
>> To: Boulder Linux Users Group -- General Mailing <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
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>> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:28 AM
>> Subject: [lug] Exporting display to android
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>> Does anyone know if you can export a display from a linux box to and
>> android device such as a Sumsung Galaxy 7.0?
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> can i ask the group what the purpose of this is for?  perhaps some useful real world examples would help.  i'm hopefully going to try to get into some phone dev this year so i'm trying to learn more about things people are doing with their phones.  i see the purpose of vnc from a phone to more complex device.  but what i don't see is how you can fit a linux based desktop into the space of a phone's display and still have it be useful.  vnc doesn't reformat or package the desktop in a manner that is more conducive to the phone display right?  which means you'd be scrolling all over the place to do anything.
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I am looking for a quick fix to a problem. We have some very old linux
based instruments (kernel 2.4.16) that had external touch screen
displays as part of the user interface. The touch screens are no
longer available. Upgrading the kernel is not feasible at this time. I
thought if we could add a tablet pc as the touch screen it would get
us by til we came up with a long term solution.

Steve