Lilliput impressions...FWIW

saito · 12-14-2003, 01:24 PM

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Based on info found here, I bought a Lilliput from the eBay guy, Extreme Audio Electronics (aka electronicar) on Nov 18.

The screen arrived in 3 business days as promised, but with an extrememly fuzzy picture and a DOA touchscreen. Also, the screen had the Jurrasic Park ghost image. After 3 days of messing with it, I sent it back. Ka-ching...$28 postage back to Hong Kong.

About a week later I get a notice saying my screen is on its way back. 3 business days later, I get a new screen. I know its a new one because now I have the famous ghost lady appearing on my screen. Touchscreen works, no problems with the calibration getting wacky after a few minutes.

Decent screen, decent initial price, but I think you play Russian Roulette with the eBay guy because many of his screens seem to have problems. If you get a good one right off the bat, great; otherwise you get screwed on postage to HK. If only digitalww had had them in stock at the time.

yuprules · 12-16-2003, 11:01 AM

Sounds about right actually, I got one of the good screens...ZERO problems with it. Amazing product for such a price, but as you said...you are either lucky with it or not so lucky. That is what ebay feedback is for I guess if he doesn't exchange it for you.

Alric · 12-16-2003, 11:10 AM

Saito,

Can you standby your system with the lilliput connected?

Thanks,

Batmanatthenewb · 12-16-2003, 04:06 PM

Had my Lilliput for about one week now. Screen is perfect. Trying to get the calibration right on the touch screen though. Had not had a problem until last night. I tried to use Hibernate. Normally I just shut down completely. After I had made it Hibernate I attached a standard keyboard to do some configuration. When I started the screen I got a message saying the hybernation image file was corrupt and windows would reboot. Then the Jurassic Park image showed itself. After I rebooted it was fine. Have cycled power off/on 8 or 10 times, and have not seen again. I believe it had something to do with attaching the keyboard while it was down. After it booted fresh with keyboard, there has not been a problem.

Sam

Reactor · 12-16-2003, 07:59 PM

i beleive the touchscreen drivers to be of completely shocking quality, as they caused a heap of problems on my system when intsalled

killerfishes · 12-16-2003, 08:33 PM

Jurassic Park image?? is this literal or just some kind of ghost image. do a lot of people have ghosting on this screen?

shakes · 12-16-2003, 10:02 PM

it's a ghost image of either the jp logo or a girl. from what i've read it doens't come up all the time ... but armen from digitalww told me it's in all screens.

killerfishes · 12-17-2003, 01:00 AM

that is odd. i think this is the final thing to make me use a xenarc.

saito · 12-17-2003, 09:58 AM

The ghost image is no big deal. It only comes up when the monitor loses sync with the computer. I heard it's not really a burn-in on the LCD, but rather a test image from one of the controller chips on the board. I tried to get a picture of it, but it's fast and fleeting.

I've been living with the monitor in my car now for about a week. If you try to hibernate, it appears that the touchscreen will lose it's calibration settings. A reboot, rather than a recalibrate fixes this. If you shutdown normally, instead of hibernate, it doesn't happen at all.

The Xenarc seems like a nice screen, but my, that's a lotta dough for an itty-bitty screen.

Laidback · 12-17-2003, 11:10 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by saito

If you try to hibernate, it appears that the touchscreen will lose it's calibration settings. A reboot, rather than a recalibrate fixes this. If you shutdown normally, instead of hibernate, it doesn't happen at all.

I have no problems hibernating my lilliput at all!

Alric · 12-17-2003, 11:14 AM

You might want to try newer drivers. Newer and beta drivers are posted here:

http://www.egalax.com.tw/Download.htm

These drivers fixed my "prevent standby" problem.

Cheers,

yuprules · 12-17-2003, 01:18 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Alric

You might want to try newer drivers. Newer and beta drivers are posted here:

http://www.egalax.com.tw/Download.htm

These drivers fixed my "prevent standby" problem.

Cheers,

Hi Alirc whoa..how did you find those drivers?! Good job!

Alric · 12-17-2003, 01:23 PM

Googled it..but they were buried on the 5th or 6th results page!

Batmanatthenewb · 12-17-2003, 06:39 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Alric

You might want to try newer drivers. Newer and beta drivers are posted here:

http://www.egalax.com.tw/Download.htm

These drivers fixed my "prevent standby" problem.

Cheers,

Were these drivers for the lilliput or the xenarc?

Sam

fluffy2097 · 12-17-2003, 07:17 PM

That looks like they would work on all the touchscreens. I will test it with my xenarc tonight.

That website should get stickied.