[Xpert]EGA-Cards on XFree ?
Hi there ! Let me explain my problem I have a nice display (lcd) with 640x480 but it needs to be driven by digital signals. My Idee was to take an old EGA-Card i have here (AST3G) and if i'm right, EGA is digital. Now my question is, does anyone know, if EGA-cards are supported in anyway by XFree ? (And which one are supported ?) Thanks a lot :-) Michael Hess ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]EGA-Cards on XFree ?
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Michael Hess wrote: I have a nice display (lcd) with 640x480 but it needs to be driven by digital signals. My Idee was to take an old EGA-Card i have here (AST3G) and if i'm right, EGA is digital. Now my question is, does anyone know, if EGA-cards are supported in anyway by XFree ? (And which one are supported ?) EGA? EGA is _not_ digital, it's _very_ analog, and pretty old. Far as I know, even XFree 3.3.x didn't support anything less than a standard VGA display device. Are you sure it's an EGA card you have? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]EGA-Cards on XFree ?
I have a nice display (lcd) with 640x480 but it needs to be driven by digital signals. My Idee was to take an old EGA-Card i have here (AST3G) and if i'm right, EGA is digital. Now my question is, does anyone know, if EGA-cards are supported in anyway by XFree ? (And which one are supported ?) xrXO EGA? EGA is _not_ digital, it's _very_ analog, and pretty old. Far as I xrXO know, even XFree 3.3.x didn't support anything less than a standard VGA xrXO display device. Are you sure it's an EGA card you have? EGA is an analog display driven by a digital signal (TTL). It is similar to CGA, but CGA could have only 2^4 colors possible (16) where EGA could have 2^6 colors possible (64). On-screen palette (without trickery) could only be 16 colors though. So TTL is digital, but to answer the original poster, it is *not* the same digital signal that the new digital flat panels use, by far. If you have an older LCD display, and you are SURE it is TTL/EGA/CGA and that it will sync to EGA horizontal scan, then it should work. But I couldn't even begin to speculate about Xfree86 support. - ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]EGA-Cards on XFree ?
On 19 Sep, division by zero wrote: I have a nice display (lcd) with 640x480 but it needs to be driven by digital signals. My Idee was to take an old EGA-Card i have here (AST3G) and if i'm right, EGA is digital. Now my question is, does anyone know, if EGA-cards are supported in anyway by XFree ? (And which one are supported ?) xrXO EGA? EGA is _not_ digital, it's _very_ analog, and pretty old. Far as I xrXO know, even XFree 3.3.x didn't support anything less than a standard VGA xrXO display device. Are you sure it's an EGA card you have? If you have an older LCD display, and you are SURE it is TTL/EGA/CGA and that it will sync to EGA horizontal scan, then it should work. But I couldn't even begin to speculate about Xfree86 support. There were also some LCD and plasma displays built that came with their own simple interface card that presented an EGA interface. I used to have one of these. But the LCD/plasma interface was a proprietary digital interface, not a normal video signal. If you have one of these old LCD/plasma systems you need to have the original EGA interface card that came with it. You cannot substitute a different card. R Horn ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
