On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Updated olpc-usbvgamirror with tweaks for better performance.
For monitors/projectors that can handle 800x600 or 1024x768, the VNC approach is the best we can do. For monitors/projectors that can handle something close to 1200x900 -- 1152x864, you can use Xinerama instead. Here is an xorg.conf that does exactly that: http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/usbvga/xorg-xo1.5-dcon-hires-extmon.conf It is *much* faster than VNC, and plays well with suspend (you'll still want to disable aggressive powersaving). Limitations and notes: - Needs to be "switched on" at X startup time. olpc-configure could check at boot time if sisusbvga is loaded and change the xorg.conf symlink. - It clips the margins of the desktop. But not very much, if the projector honours the resolution, it's minimal. (Funny enough, if we use 1280x960 but try to constrain it with Virtual, X ignores our Modes line and falls back to 1152x864.) - It hides the cursor -- this is a long-standing Xinerama "mirror mode" quirk. - It isn't super fast, but the performance is acceptable. (We are saturating the USB 2 bandwidth with the amount of pixels and the bitdepth -- but cannot scale down either.) - Video (via Xv) doesn't work on USB2VGA devices cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
