On Wed, October 15, 2008 1:23 pm, JustinLove wrote: > We've been trying and failing to get a project going that really shouldn't > be > this hard. The first try wasn't fast enough. We looked at some EPIA-SN > boards, but both of them died suddenly and at the moment we still don't > have an > explanation. The driver picture was somewhat doubtful at the time as > well. I > tried a BeagleBoard based on the demo videos, only to discover that the > graphics drivers being demoed were based on proprietary, un-released code, > and > so doesn't do me any good. > > In case we have to start over again, I realized I've kind of put the cart > before the horse. Rather than get a board and see if works, it might be > nice > to start with OE/Angstrom, which we've been using so far, and see what > hardware > it supports well. > > We want to run dual monitors (two communicating boards if necessary), one > with > full-screen streaming video (mpeg, etc) and the other with video on about > 1/3 > of the screen and a free rotating image covering most of the rest of the > screen. Our sample art was 720x480, and we've played at times with > 640x480 and > 800x600. The application also needs some GPIO; we could use an external > USB > controller in a pinch.
Talk with Technologic <http://www.embeddedarm.com>. Depending on the framerate you should be able to use something like a TS7300 or a TS7800 with the video board piggybacked to it. I don't work for them; I've used their product --Yan -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) You are an adult when you realize that everyone's an idiot sometimes. You are wise when you include yourself. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users
