no see above I priced them last night, unless you want a fuzzy 640x480 monitor (which is not an improvement in my book) that will be 100us$ please, and again timing is not a big deal if your using a beefier system that can handle linux, you edit a text file, which i am familiar with since I have to do it every time my xbox ends up on a new tv

Im looking at a old btx board right now, I can shove a couple gigs of ram on it and a fat p4 or a celeron D for ~25$ total, thats more than plenty for a linux box, and if the retro rez gets to you this thing also has dvi out so you could setup a dual display setup, the old small mono screen for toolboxes chat or whatnot and a large color screen (maybe even a wide screen in portrait mode)

point is it seems a little silly to spend 100$ on a 9 inch monochrome monitor when the rest of the mod would be well under 50$ in parts

and no your not going to just make an adapter, but we really dont know the skill set of the op, for all we know he could be a retired GE engineer who used to work on spy satellites