I have decided on a somewhat different approach from all of the ones discussed here. Since my chief motivation for using the PS3 is to do Cell development, I decided that I would attach an absolutely minimum monitor to the PS3 (for system management) and do everything using Xwindows or ssh from another computer. I have a sense that the PS3 doesn't deserve an expensive or sophisticated video solution until some reasonable fraction of the GPU power is made available to linux users. I attached a surplus 30-year old BW monitor (worth about $5) to the composite video port and made ydltextmode the default. It works fine - with all the flicker of a interlaced BW monitor it is actually easier on the eyes than a scaled LCD display - and the abysmal graphics speed is not a problem (it scrolls very fast!).
I will keep attuned to the ps3-video developments with great interest. I am glad this list has recently become very active - perhaps some combination of TSS and Sony might chose to improve the graphics situation if they sense reasonable interest in the community. -wn On Jan 9, 2007, at 4:40 PM, David Seikel wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:44:56 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I have been reading quite a few postings about video performance >>> from the PS3 that is not very impressive. Is their anyone that is >>> using a monitor with the PS3 that is achieving 1080p results. Has >>> anyone tried >>> the BenQ 24" monitor? Any input would be greatly appreciated. >>> Thanks. >> >> My display for the PS3 is a Samsung 23" HDTV that does 720p and >> 1080i. YDL always seems to use 720p, which isn't so bad I guess ... >> but I think Enlightenment is using anti-aliasing on the screen >> fonts, which definitely accounts for some blurriness on my system >> (most notable in terminal windows, which is basically where I live, >> so i'm really interested in figuring how to turn this off). > > E17 uses font hinting. Go to the control panel and start the font > config dialog, then select Advanced. Around about the middle you will > see a section for controlling the font hinting. Try playing with that > and see if it gets better. I get no blurriness on my monitor. > > > I have just noticed that having a HDMI to DVI cable plugged in, even > though you cant use it if your DVI monitor does not support HDCP, can > help a bit. As I stated before, I use a component to VGA cable to my > LCD monitor. This monitor cant do 480i, which is a problem because > kboot defaults to 480i, and the GameOS factory default is 480i. The > first is a problem, because I cant use kboot, I have to wait for > YDL to > boot. The second one is a problem if you turn it on by holding down > the power button for five seconds. In either case, I can feed > composite into the TV capture card on my other computer, but it looks > awful, kboot is barely readable. > > On the other hand, with the HDMI to DVI cable plugged in, the PS3 uses > it to negotiate with the monitor, the monitor says "I can't do 480i, > but I can do 480p", so kboot starts up in 480p, and it is much more > usable. The bad news is that GameOS still defaults to 480i. B-( > > > I am still experimenting. The resolution takes up the first 5 bits of > the video mode, the rest are various flags. There are at least three > of these flags, fullscreen / overscan, RGB / YUV, dither on / off. By > the looks of it there are a total of at least 12 bits, but it may be > 16. Thats a lot of bit space to search, especially since I leave ten > seconds between tests to give my monitor time to sync, and me time to > inspect the results. It's tiring, since there is no way to automate > testing the final result, you have to stare at the screen to see if > something useful happens. There are also a few different cable > combinations I can try, and over the next two weeks, I will have a > variety of monitor / TV types to try out. > > I think I can ignore the RGB and dither bits, one just makes the > colours all wrong, the other doesn't seem to make any difference. I > can also just leave the fullscreen bit turned on, it doesn't change > the > sync rates, so I should get a result either way. > > I am writing a script to automate these tests as much as possible. > I'll put it in here later today. > > So far I have found an undocumented mode - 19. It doesn't get me any > better results though, just 720p. > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
