On 4/19/05, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't had time to read the feature discussions in the archives > yet, so I'll keep this brief. > Seems like there will have to be some optional features. Your > must-have feature is my power-wasting bloat. > The feature that would get me to pay more than $150 is a > fixed-frequency monitor option. Yes, brand-new fixed-frequency monitor > designs are just now hitting the market; see Apple's snazzy new wide-format > flat displays. Since you can't get a display at all on a fixed-frequency > monitor until the board is field-configured, and you can't install any > software until you get a display, it logically follows that a true > fixed-frequency board must provide a way to set its power-up mode without > any help from the host computer. I'd go for providing a PS2 keyboard jack > driving a $2 microcontroller with minimal embedded ROM firmware, and let the > user type in an XFree86-style modeline blind. A few DIPswitches to select > between user modes and default factory modes, and write-protect the user > modes, and there you are. >
I thought the BIOS code would query the EDID and automatically configure to a listed mode for the VGA display. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? We have a fixed-frequency 2560x2048 panel here, and the nVidia card we connected to it figured it out and automatically scaled to it. No configuration or extra microcontrollers necessary. Just BIOS code at POST. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
