USB to VGA

I wanted to connect an extra screen to my laptop, but I have no VGA output plug. Google taught me that there is something like a USB to VGA adapter, which can be used to connect an extra monitor. For windows I found several success stories, unfortunately for linux is seems to be more difficult since the drivers are not so readily available. Has anyone managed to get this working on archlinux?

Yes, I do have VGA and HDMI ports, but I do need 3 monitors(including the laptop screen - that is LVDS,VGA and HDMI), in intel's info it's written it does support 3 monitors(# of Displays Supported ‡ 3), but I guess it doesn't(tried in Windows as well). The question may be the same, yet I don't see an answer.
Has anyone tried using a USB to VGA/HDMI/DVI/etc adapter and with what success?

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Matrox makes some 2 and 3 screen adapters:
http://www.matrox.com/
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There're a lot of these adapters, but I'm not sure if any is compatible with Linux.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27234?viewlocale=en_US
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Hi,
I'm trying to hook up an additional external monitor to my MacBook Pro using a USB-to-VGA adapter. I don't need any kind of graphics acceleration.
Here is the type of adapter I'm looking at:
http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&Item=GUC2015V
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812203013
Apparently some have gotten the 2nd one to work on Linux with the sisusb driver. Does anybody know if this is compatible with Mac OS X?
Thank you!
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I have this second hand 8213 D1G. Tried to install windows on it. Windows works, but I have no internet. In the device manager section I see several ! and ?. At the 'ethernet line'. If I look for drivers in the properties tab, there is no driver installed. If I try to re-install, this does not work. I found drivers on the internet, put it on usb stick. But the usb ports on the 8213 D1G don't work for usb stick. They do work for keyboard and mouse. In the device manager, there are also the ! and ? lines for usb device. For the rest there is a ! and ? at a vga device. And the pc only works in vga mode 640 480. If I try higher resolution, no effect.
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I hope to upgrade my current controller to PXIe-8135RT. My application requires me to have at least four display output (VGA, DVI or HDMI). So now, I have these questions:
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To give you an example, Hypervisor is intended for applications where you wish to do a portion of the I/O on each OS, and I think that at a minimum 25% of your PXIe slots must be assigned to the Windows OS. If all you need Windows for is to provide multi-monitor support, you might want to consider alternatives that keep the real-time processing and display on separate controllers.

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