On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:50:54 -0800 Warren Nagourney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have done some investigation of the various video modes on the PS3 > (in Linux) and find that one is not very badly compromised when > using a standard computer monitor. > > First, there are at least 3 VESA modes which are the same as > standard computer modes (at 60 Hz): > > Mode 11 - 1280x768 > Mode 12 - 1280x1024 > Mode 13 - 1920x1200 > > I am considering trying numbers >13 to see what happens. After all, > the RSX is a modified NVIDIA GPU and they probably support lots of > modes in addition to the published ones. All I need is a working > "ps3videomode" command - it was not installed with the standard YDL5 > installation (nor was "emacs", "locate" and a host of other nice > commands - does anyone know an easy way to get them all without > installing the RPMs individually?) Have you tried something like - yum install emacs locate ps3videomode > These three modes work on my Samsung 940B (using the digital port) > whose native resolution is 1440x900. I was blown away that the > 1920x1200 worked, though the monitor put up a little message > complaining about it. Of course, they were all scaled and looked > more or less fuzzy (actually the 1920x1200 was best, but I got a > headache from the fuzziness using it for any time). I believe that > using a DVI- VGA adaptor should allow the monitor to avoid scaling at > the expense of a small dark border (on modes 11 and 12). > > By the way, the Samsung monitor is HDCP compliant, but I find it > hard to believe that this matters for anything except (possibly) > playing a BlueRay movie. I am pretty sure it doesn't matter in Linux. Lack of HDCP on a DVI monitor may matter on Linux, even though it shouldn't. I have heard that the PS3 wont even turn on the HDMI output unless the monitor it's plugged into is HDCP compliant. If this is true, then a DVI to VGA adaptor wont help. I'm going to be experimenting with this quite heavily over the next two weeks on a variety of monitors. I'll let you know what I find.
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