Re: [Open-graphics] Vesa

2007-02-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Peter Lund wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 17:26 +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, Is there any place where the Vesa standards can be downloaded for free? http://www.vesa.org I found you can get http://www.vesa.org/public/VBE/vbe3.pdf easily. As you can see, there are many VESA standards: http

[Open-graphics] [Fwd: Bob Pease Dr Howard Johnson Discuss Long-Reach Applications]

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Shaw
---BeginMessage--- Title: Analog by Design Show Presenting... Designing Long-Reach Applications with DVI, HDMI, and PCI Express Cable Standards Co-Hosted by Bob Pease & Dr. Howard Johnson Overview: Faster, cheaper, farther.. is this a new car? No, it's a

Re: $129 spectrum analyzer Re: [Open-graphics] PCIe know-how?

2007-03-05 Thread Russell Shaw
. That 2.4GHz thing is nothing much more than cutting and pasting circuits off the data sheet. To cover arbitrary frequency ranges with decent performance, you'll need to design wideband fast-sweeping frequency synthesizers and multiple intermediate frequency amplifier and filter stages. -- Russell Shaw

[Open-graphics] Drivers

2007-04-08 Thread Russell Shaw
everything analog, high-freq RF, a bit of DSP (Analog Devices), and microcontrollers (AVR mainly). I'm familiar with kernel code and writing device drivers to some degree. I've also written simple graphics compilers and have written LL(1) and LALR(1) parser-generator tools. -- Russell Shaw, B.Eng

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Dieter wrote: - OGD1 is for hardware hackers. This isn't just about graphics. If all you wanted was a graphics card that worked with Free Software, we've had that for a long time with Matrox, for some time with Intel, and most recently and significantly with ATI. And VIA has very recently

Re: [Open-graphics] OGD1 makes Slashdot

2008-05-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Attila Kinali wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:28:26 +0200 Kenneth Ostby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth P. Stox: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/21/2136243 Remember to just read the article. I warn you, skip the comments :) Too late! i already did ^^; And yes, it's the

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But we need to think of things that make us say I'd pay $1500 to be able to do that specific thing better. They can be relatively niche applications, though. I spoke with someone at Pixar, and

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-06 Thread Russell Shaw
André Pouliot wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But we need to think of things that make us say I'd pay $1500 to be able to do that specific thing better. They can be relatively niche applications

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked about the pci thing in a previous post and was ignored. I suggested the vga thing in a previous post and was ignored. Feeling like you're being ignored seems to be a common problem

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad to hear that your work wasn't impeded by our slowness. I would have got vga functionality working to some degree before any press releases because that would acid test for any bugs

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad to hear that your work wasn't impeded by our slowness. I would have got vga functionality working to some degree before any press releases because that would acid test for any bugs

Re: [Open-graphics] Re: updating the front page - explaining why we need open graphics

2009-04-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Arthur Marsh wrote: Josephblack wrote, on 2009-04-19 19:42: On 13/04/2009, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Josephblack wrote, on 2009-04-13 15:17: Our front page does not adequately explain why we need an open graphics card. snip With ATI, there is still firmware that is

Re: [Open-graphics] Video of OGD1 booting as a VGA text console

2009-04-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Miller wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:54:30 Russell Miller wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:06:22 Timothy Normand Miller wrote: Howard was kind enough to make a video for us a PC booting Linux with OGD1 as the VGA console. I've uploaded the video to two places: