Quest for 800x480 - Page 14

antimatter · 02-25-2005, 01:15 PM

Update:
Well i am sorry to say that i was unable to get via to say (in writing) that they will not damamge my screen that i was planning on sending them.

The main reason i was worried is becasue the screen has been gutted and modified and is a bit fragile. I encourage any one else with a spare lilliput screen to contact mpattonm thinks it is still worth sending a lilliput and nobody volunteers lets see of we can start a fund going everybody chip in 10 bucks or so to purchase a new or used lilliput.

I understand the reason why they need the lilliput screen, not only will the driver/bios combo work with 800x480 resolution but it will have the correct timings to work with the lilliput screen so that the lilliput detects 800x480 (that is the holy grail. We can get 800x480 through an external graphics card but without the lilliput detecting it right it still wont look right)

antimatter · 02-25-2005, 01:45 PM

Have you seen this one for sale
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/classified-archive/43515-7-lilliput-non-touchscreeen-sale-150-shipped.html
150 bucks

thats just 15 people donating 10 bucks each

STI_FFY · 02-25-2005, 02:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by redwagon

Guys, please wait a while before you start spamming these mailboxes, ok?
The update should be tested next week.

Man, I was just warming up. I saved the draft of the message when I read yours. I put my thumb between the hammer and the firing pin. :-)

OK, now WHAT UPDATE is being tested? Are you saying that someone has a VIA update for 800 X 480 on the CLE266 in the EPIA-M series motherboard? Who?

tom2112 · 02-25-2005, 03:07 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by antimatter

Have you seen this one for sale
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=43515
150 bucks

thats just 15 people donating 10 bucks each

I've got a Lilly that I would send in. Unfortunately, it is in pieces with the VGA cable hacked off. I was planning to rewire it, but just never have time. PM me Antimatter and I'll send you the screen.

I would rather donate $10 and send via a monitor that is right out of the box.

STI_FFY · 02-25-2005, 03:17 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by tom2112

I've got a Lilly that I would send in. Unfortunately, it is in pieces with the VGA cable hacked off. I was planning to rewire it, but just never have time. PM me Antimatter and I'll send you the screen.

I would rather donate $10 and send via a monitor that is right out of the box.

That $150 dollar one in the link has NO VGA.

camsgs3 · 02-25-2005, 03:31 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by redwagon

Guys, please wait a while before you start spamming these mailboxes, ok?
The update should be tested next week.

red - do you have a inside source or something

or maybe are employed by them

antimatter · 02-25-2005, 03:54 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by STI_FFY

That $150 dollar one in the link has NO VGA.

CrapI didn't notice....

Maye ziplock would be willing to sell us one at cost.

I am curious on what you guys are up to aswell.... spill the beans

STI_FFY · 02-25-2005, 04:48 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by antimatter

CrapI didn't notice....

Who's CrapI ??

redwagon · 02-25-2005, 10:08 PM

No, I don't work for VIA, but an old friend of mine does. The state of play is this:
The bios team were working on the driver update as of last night. They are sure the chipset will support this resolution. I've found them a Xenarc retailer locally (they're made here in Taiwan after all) and they will buy one themselves for testing. No need for you guys to mail your hardware over here.
I'll let you all know as soon as there are some results.

STI_FFY · 02-25-2005, 10:18 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by redwagon

The bios team were working on the driver update as of last night.

I wish I had a buck for everytime someone has said "wait, it's going to be here any day now".

antimatter · 02-25-2005, 10:59 PM

Yea... the xenarc is nice but what about the lilliput??

ddn · 03-02-2005, 06:44 PM

Does anyone have experience with the 800TSV? Says the Physical Resolution is 640x480, but supports resolutions 640 x 480 ~ 1600 x 1200 and is 4:3.

Anyone know what it looks like at 800x600? If its good, I will Gladly spend the extra $80 for another 1" of screen real estate, since I have room for it anyway.

Thoughts?

antimatter · 03-02-2005, 07:18 PM

i havent heard anything bad about it

Redmage... any update

turbocad6 · 03-03-2005, 12:50 AM

I considered the via board when I decided to rip out my shuttle p4, nice but way to hot & power hungry. I looked at many different options, & decided that the via had too many limitations, not the least of which is the fact that it is relatively slow & the 800X480 problem....

I settled on a pentium m centrino design, with a 1.6 donthan chip, with the 2gb L2 cache, blisteringly fast & uses about as much power as the via setup, I am doing this by using a dell 700m centrino laptop motherboard

the reason I am posting this here is because this setup uses a ati video setup that supports dual screens & 800X480 res. at many different refresh rates, I haven't connected the lilli yet as I'm still playing with the lvds interface for the primary screen, but I will test & post here, it should work.....

for someone starting from scratch this appears to be a good option, you get alot for the money & you can buy a whole laptop in the $800-$1000 range but sell the screen portion on ebay for at least $300-$350, did I mention that it is extremely fast, benchmarking up there with 3.0p4's, & uses a total of 85 watts with the 12.1" widescreen, take that off & your probably around 55 watts.......

BeaverWise · 03-03-2005, 07:30 AM

Would they need a Xenarc to test on to ensure the drivers work for both displays or is it believed that a solution for one will be a solution for all? Comments...