Thread: Epia-M 800x480 WinXP VGA driver download - last call

Originally Posted by dug1967

Using Onboard Video....

At the moment don't know the answer to the other two, I am building the case now, so components are not hooked up.... I will check when they are bootable....

So is it just an issue with older Mother Boards?

Please check and let us know. There was a BIOS and driver available once which was suporting this resolution but it is gone for long time now and so if you have confirmed and working combination of BIOS and driver we are all interested anyway. Second opton to try.

Originally Posted by afr0puff

Any idea on when this will become official?

Also, if this messes up my system, will I be able to revert back?

Never. It has been custom created specifically "for us"and will never be released to public. Yes, it can be reversed by simply flashing official BIOS back and driver downgrade.

I put it on a bootable USB key that I have and whenever I run the app it just sort of hangs for a while. I let it sit for a few minutes and then gave up and rebooted. Has anyone had success with an M1000 and this app, with a USB key? Or should I make a bootable CD next to try?

-Gremlin

I didn't read the whole post it says WinXP and I have Win2k, and I'm having problems with it. if I hook it up to my CRT, it will work as 800x480, but if I hook it up to my lilli as soon as it gets to win2k (after it boots) it shows me a blue screen (like there's no signal there).

If I hook it back to the CRT I have to do a reboot before I can get an image on it. What do ya'll think?

I think it's a driver problem, being that i'm not using XP, but I'm not sure. And the fact that it works till it gets to the Win2k desktop.

Originally Posted by b_nom

I didn't read the whole post it says WinXP and I have Win2k, and I'm having problems with it. if I hook it up to my CRT, it will work as 800x480, but if I hook it up to my lilli as soon as it gets to win2k (after it boots) it shows me a blue screen (like there's no signal there).

If I hook it back to the CRT I have to do a reboot before I can get an image on it. What do ya'll think?

I think it's a driver problem, being that i'm not using XP, but I'm not sure. And the fact that it works till it gets to the Win2k desktop.

This is exactly what I am expecting from you guys. These drivers are not fully qualified and certainly do contain a LOT of bugs. I need to get these from you in order to have them fixed.

Anyway, I have posted this first bugreport yesterday (brief version follows):
1) Selecting "LCD" in BIOS results in "no video"
2) If non-DDC display is used during OS start, display driver does not correctly initialize underlaying hardware, resulting no video symphom once OS passes boot progress logo phase. (BTW Lilliput is NOT VESA DDC compliant).
3) Widescreen support timing modeline is not correct, causing some display devices to display 800x480 resolution beeing incorrectly displayed. In fact, only some of monitors used to test 800x480 res. here has displayed correctly, some (even expensive LCDs) has shown corrupted picture and some (like Lilliput of course) went to "no signal" state upon resolution change.

Once these get fixed, I will post them somewhere. Anway again, i am hoping to hear some more bugs reported from you.

Originally Posted by mpattonm

This is exactly what I am expecting from you guys. These drivers are not fully qualified and certainly do contain a LOT of bugs. I need to get these from you in order to have them fixed.

Anyway, I have posted this first bugreport yesterday (brief version follows):
1) Selecting "LCD" in BIOS results in "no video"
2) If non-DDC display is used during OS start, display driver does not correctly initialize underlaying hardware, resulting no video symphom once OS passes boot progress logo phase. (BTW Lilliput is NOT VESA DDC compliant).
3) Widescreen support timing modeline is not correct, causing some display devices to display 800x480 resolution beeing incorrectly displayed. In fact, only some of monitors used to test 800x480 res. here has displayed correctly, some (even expensive LCDs) has shown corrupted picture and some (like Lilliput of course) went to "no signal" state upon resolution change.

Once these get fixed, I will post them somewhere. Anway again, i am hoping to hear some more bugs reported from you.

Thanks! I didn't know if it was me doing something wrong or what, guess I'll go back to previous drivers and reflash the BIOS

Let us know when you get updated drivers, so we can try them again

Patton:
If you have updates to those files, let me know. I can post them on my web server for people to download. Just PM me, and I'll give you my email address. You can email the files to me and I will post them for people to download.

Thanks for the work you're doing on this!!
Tom

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Do these bios updates give you a 800x480 resolution that is an exact match to the pixels on your 7" displays? By that I mean if you display a black and white checkerboard pattern where every adjacent pixel is a different color, do you see any interference patterns? This would mean some pixels are missing or are being interpolated.

Also, is there any way to figure out what the modeline is for this resolution (front porch, sync, back porch, etc...)? I've been searching far and wide and trying lots of different values in X-windows and powerstrip but none of them give me a true pixel-perfect 800x480 mode. I know it's not my video card because it's an ATI radeon and those cards are supposed to work great with powerstrip and support a billion modes.