RE: Is there any work on supporting portrait mode?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Roberts Sent: 20 May 2004 17:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there any work on supporting portrait mode? Barry Scott wrote: I'm trying to get X to drive a display in portrait mode. But the only driver that seems to work is the nVidia code and the performance is terrible. Are you talking about a monitor that is able to change its beam scanning, or are you talking about rotating a normal monitor, so that the beam scans from top-to-bottom? In the first case, almost any graphics card should be able to set up a 768x1024 mode for a standard monitor. However, the second case requires a graphics chip that knows how to scan its frame buffer differently. I know of very few chips with that ability, and a software simulation will always be unsatisfactory. The application is to mount a Plasma screen on its side. Which means the software simulation. We have tested on Windows and the i810 driver costs about 20% extra on a 2.4GHz P4 CPU to run portrait and play a movie. So it is possible to do reasonable cost. However using the ShadowBF under X the performance is, as you say, unsatisfactory. We have not found a portrait mode plasma screens yet, but that seems like the solution we need to look for, we do not want to use Windows. Barry ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Is there any work on supporting portrait mode?
On Friday 21 of May 2004 16:58, Barry Scott wrote: The application is to mount a Plasma screen on its side. Which means the software simulation. We have tested on Windows and the i810 driver costs about 20% extra on a 2.4GHz P4 CPU to run portrait and play a movie. So it is possible to do reasonable cost. However using the ShadowBF under X the performance is, as you say, unsatisfactory. I believe there is a filter in MPlayer that rotates the movie. If the only thing to be shown rotated is a movie, you could consider using rotation in the movie player. However, I am not sure how efficient this is, so this needs testing. -- Rafa Rzepecki ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Is there any work on supporting portrait mode?
--- Rafa³_Rzepecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 of May 2004 16:58, Barry Scott wrote: The application is to mount a Plasma screen on its side. Which means the software simulation. We have tested on Windows and the i810 driver costs about 20% extra on a 2.4GHz P4 CPU to run portrait and play a movie. So it is possible to do reasonable cost. However using the ShadowBF under X the performance is, as you say, unsatisfactory. I think some smi chips support rotation in hardware in xfree86. I don't recall which ones off hand. Alex I believe there is a filter in MPlayer that rotates the movie. If the only thing to be shown rotated is a movie, you could consider using rotation in the movie player. However, I am not sure how efficient this is, so this needs testing. -- Rafa³ Rzepecki __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
