Text 5170, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-02-04 14:38:32 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
   Kommentar till text 5151 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: Re: radeon tv-out
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-=> In article 03 Feb 06  19:36:04, Maurice Kinal wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

[ sniffles, setsuban ]
 MK> I don't know about Japan but on this side of the Pacific we could
 MK> use a change.
Ken-san is feeling better, today        :)

[ pll's ]
 MK> Always nice when that happens ... I guess.
i guess they're no longer used as much with digital transmission, or used
differently perhaps..

 MK>> radeonfb: Monitor 1 type CRT found
 MK>> radeonfb: EDID probed
 KP> VESA Display Data Channel, Extended Display Identification Standard,
 KP> check

 MK> Gotcha!  I'll need to do some cheching on that but I did manage to get
 MK> 1280x1024 16-bit at 85Hz working.  I need to check further about 24-bit.
an 888 rgb map has eight times as many red and blue values (256 vs 32), and
four times as many green values (256 vs 64) then 16bpp (565)

 MK>> I am assuming the 'radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found' means the
 MK>> tv-out on that card.  Interesting.
 KP> hm.

 MK> I was sort of right about that, and it looks like both are going to have
 MK> to be the same since they can't be set independently.  So if the tft can
 MK> only handle 800x600 16-bit at 60Hz then both the crt (vga plug) and the
 MK> tv-out will have to operate at that level.  That kind of sucks but if I
 MK> totally ignore the vga plug it might make a suitable card for a digital
 MK> vcr to a small tft.  I can't see it being industrial/commercial grade.
oke

[ gatos ]
 MK> I stumbled across those on a search.  Definetly overkill for my use for
 MK> this card.  We'll see once I hook something suitable up to the tv-out and
 MK> take it from there.  At this stage of the game I am liking Matroxes more
 MK> and more despite how good a GUI looks on the radeon.  At least with a
 MK> Matrox the interfaces can be different resolutions/frequencies, even with
 MK> the g400 breakout box.  Far more configurable.
sure

 MK>> Given that I put a fairly new cd-rom on the new guy and
 MK>> it has problems with cd's burned from the dvd burner my guess that
 MK>> it really sucks at compatibility is looking true.  If so then I
 MK>> suppose it'll have to go.
 KP> maybe there's a compatibility mode that will be supported.

 MK> Beats me.  All I know is that nothing dvd-ish seems to catch
 MK> my fancy that can't be done better some other way.  As far as
 MK> archiving goes I prefer the sata method and the DVD movie format
 MK> can be replicated on a HD if anyone really cares about that.  I
 MK> know I don't.  They can keep that BS.
i saw a mini portable five gigas hard drive at a store -- it's about the size
of the pressed power compacts some women carry, but a bit thicker and smaller
around than most. perhaps the thickness of a double-stuffed oreo. i think it
was going for about $75 (quite a few cookies and compacts).

 MK>> It won't surprise me any if I am right about this.
 KP> the new way has hidden good, maybe  (:

 MK> For who?
the first cd's will be a quarter century old soon, i think, so it may be this
is encouragement to move on.

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                -- Lily Tomlin
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