Dieter wrote:
Yeah. We want to be able to have every vconsole have any resolution and depth it wants.While wrestling with all these other issues, remember that some displays can't change mode. Ain't physically capable of it.Most displays cannot change mode. High quality computer monitors are fixed mode. TVs are fixed mode. The multi-sync monitors are the anomaly. Those LCD displays aren't really multi-sync, the panel has a fixed resolution. But the brain-damaged pee-seas expect a multi-sync monitor, so the LCDs add some sort of scan converter, which raises the cost of the display, and for what? So you can have a crappy looking display if you aren't using the native resolution of the panel.
Point taken AFA LCDs are concerned. However, I don't think that the hardware scan converter adds a lot to the price and crappy BIOS and boot display isn't a big issue. OTOH, a QVGA LCD doesn't need an interpolating scan converter to display VGA. However, the bootstrap problem remains. If the Board can't read the information from the monitor, it needs to be able to display VGA on the monitor for configuration. -- JRT _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
