On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Julie Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/13/2017 10:42 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> that's incorrect. you're perfectly entitled to try resolutions >> beyond that which are required by the EOMA68 specification (however do >> not be surprised if it doesn't actually work). >> >> in the case of the A20 Card, the RGB/TTL output *happens* to be >> capable of driving up to 1920x1080 @ 60fps, which happens to be well >> beyond what i would expect the PCMCIA interface to cope with without >> creating EMF interference (which will be your problem to deal with if >> you go beyond the specification). > > Ah, OK then. > > So what does it look like on the side of the OS?
that's entirely going to depend on what OS and what Card you have. > If you're using a 1080p > monitor and it turns out that the card is capable of 1080p through > RGB/TTL, does the OS automatically know this, or does it still think > (without manual intervention) that some smaller resolution like 1366x768 > is the maximum? i'm not going to make any such restrictions in software. if someone plugs in a 1080p VGA monitor, and through the EDID interface it's detected, and the OS and the SoC is capable of it, good for them. the problem comes if they then *rely* on that... hmmm... >> bottom line: if you develop an app that violates the EOMA68 >> specification, then your clients all upgrade (without telling you) to >> a future card and they *ALL* complain "your app dun't wurk no more", >> don't come crying to me :) > > Right, I was wondering more from the perspective of the end-user. The > main reason I'm wondering is because the monitor my mom currently uses > has a native resolution of 1280x1024 (one of those old monitors from > around 2000 or so). yeah that miiight be okay... it's a full 30% higher than the EOMA68 spec (in terms of the number of pixels) so is definitely out-of-spec, but you might get lucky. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
