IMHO: You can drive a VGA screen at QVGA, but you can't drive a QVGA screen at VGA...
Cheers, Federico On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:16 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:46:28 +0200 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > >> On Friday 06 June 2008 20:07:01 Joerg Reisenweber wrote: >> > Am Fr 6. Juni 2008 schrieb Flemming Richter Mikkelsen: >> > > When it comes to GTA03, I will not buy one (because I buy the GTA02), >> > > so I will not be the target. Maybe QVGA is a good solution, or maybe it >> > > should be an option when you buy???? >> > >> > If I got that right, we "just need to tune some of the LCD-driver settings, >> > to get QVGA performance on a VGA screen"(OWTTE). So the ONLY argument for a >> > QVGA screen is the marginal lower price (and it allegedly looks better than >> > a VGA in QVGA mode which I don't understand) - but this would clearly be no >> > bargain at all if we go for more expensive offer of "QVGA *OR* VGA option". >> > Absolute nonsense, it costs 100 somecoin to replace the screen with a 30 >> > somecoin cheaper one 'on customer order'. >> > >> > I opt for VGA and give us a way to drive it QVGA whenever speed is a main >> > concern (think someone said this before?). For GTA03 I'd prefer to have the >> > SAME LCM as GTA02, just to reduce design risk. NO capacitive ts, NO QVGA >> > LCD screen! :-/ Just my 2 cents from HW-dev >> >> Full ACK. Once again, 03 is about evolution, not revolution. > > vga to qvga for gta03 is a drop-in replacement. same size, form-factor, > manufacturer, etc. etc. - so as such it fits in with evolution. as it is a > drop-in, it is a decision that can be changed easily (for at least a while). > > for now we have a vga screen on the gta03. i asked this after a talk with will > and i wanted to gauge what people would really think about qvga. i'm fairly > agnostic about vga vs qvga myself - i'm on the fence with it. i see the > benefits both ways. if we could have i'd have liked an intermediate res (eg > 480x272), but we won't. > > -- > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
