Well, I found one that seems to work; a cheap generic brand PL2303 based adapter, which, once stripped down, fit easily in the small space. It also helped that it didn't require an external power supply.
Here's the finished project, horriffic Dremeling included. To get everything to fit, I had to remove the display's serial backpack, and reconnect it with a nice long ribbon cable, after removeing all the connectors and headers from it. I completely Dremeled off the GPO's, and also took a few millimeters off the display's PCB itself, completely destroying any imagineable warrenty this thing may have had :-P
The connections are soldered via the USB-to-Serial adapter directly to the keyboard's internal USB hub, and powered off the same, so there are no external connections. It seems so far to run under both Linux and Windows XP as well as if it were connected directly via serial(except with LCDProc, apparently due to a bug that some other people have seen as well).
http://24.88.123.54/tempshare/lcd3.jpg
The cutting is a bit sloppy to look at, but given that this is the first mod I've done which was more sophistacated than putting LEDs in things, I'm satisfied with the way it came out. :-)
-Andrew
The keyboard's got an internal USB hub with a spare channel and plenty enough power to drive and backlight the display, but this will obviously require the use of a USB to Serial adapter. Can anyone reccomend such an adapter that will work in a relitively painless fashion with this display under Linux? Obviously, smaller is better, since this thing's getting shoved into a small space, but any setup that has been tested to work is worth noting.
