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Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: Modulo7 on November 19, 2004, 02:59:41 am

The CFXGA card from IOData is no more available. Do you know any other card that would be compatible with the last Zaurus??

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: kfetisov on November 19, 2004, 04:36:37 am

Pretec CF Pesenter (2 times cheaper), but this card requires modified memory-cs.o driver.

Good Luck,

Konstantin.

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: jamesannan on November 19, 2004, 07:59:47 am

Reports of the death of the CFXGA card are mildly exaggerated. I just received one today, a few days after ordering from PC Success (in Japan), for ¥20,000 including delivery. It has simple plug-and-play compatibility (I have an 860 with stock Sharp ROM), the screen mirroring worked fine and I look forward to turning a few heads at scientific meetings. If anyone can tell me how to make the IR control turn pages in the pdf viewer I would be most grateful.

I have a question for the experts (well, anyone less amateur than me, which doesn't exactly narrow the field much).

The in-built presenter software can output at 1024*768, or something like that. However, the cfxgamirror code only goes to 800*600. Is there a fundamental road-block that makes the higher resolution unavailable?

On switching the mirroring on, then the presentation software, and then exiting the lattter, the screen remains at the larger size. However, it is offset with the RH edge wrapping round on the left (the edge is at the same place as for the 800*600 size). Maybe it is possible to take advantage off this? I suppose as a last resort I could convert a pdf file to individual pages of graphics and use the presentation software, but that would be rather tedious.

James

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: tz on November 19, 2004, 03:52:47 pm

The modes are set by the driver.  I wrote one set of mirror software.  Basically you have 3 or 4 VESA modes, but 1024x768 is only 256 color, so it can't really mirror things (though you might be able draw directly to it).  The other modes are for NTSC or PAL, and control which connector the signal is on.

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: Zuber on November 19, 2004, 04:30:24 pm

kfetisov,

Any links/info on what you need for the Pretec card to work ?

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: jamesannan on November 19, 2004, 05:06:17 pm

tz,

I saw on the iodata site that 1024*768 was only a few colours, I'm a little puzzled by that cos the photo I displayed seemed to look pretty good. As for screen mirroring, 256 colours would be plenty as my presentations only have block colours for test and charts etc, no photographs or anything fancy.

James

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: Meanie on April 07, 2005, 02:57:37 am

Does the Pretec CF Presenter work with the C3000? I am thinking of getting it (but only if it works

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: anunakin on December 24, 2005, 11:28:59 am

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Does the Pretec CF Presenter work with the C3000? I am thinking of getting it (but only if it works
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I need this info too! CF Presenter works in SL-C3x00?

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: nothing on December 26, 2005, 03:15:47 am

Yes, Pretec CF presenter works.

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: Omicron on January 02, 2006, 11:31:44 am

How about some links to places to purchase (and necessary drivers)

For the lazy :-)

Title: Available CF VGA card?
Post by: anunakin on January 05, 2006, 07:47:51 am

I have a Voyager CF-VGA here, but I dont know nothing about howto works with this, any can help me?
 
I found this infos about this:
http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-01/2001783.html (http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-01/2001783.html)

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Here's the feedback I was able to get from Colorgraphic about the
Voyager:

   The current Voyager contains a standard VGA controller, the
   Cirrus Logic GD5422.  Any code already available for Linux for
   the GD5422 should be portable.

   There is no attribute memory as there was never anything
   written into the PCMCIA standard for a VGA device.

   The device operates as a standard VGA device - init sequences
   are no different than a ISA 5422 video adapter.

I have found more info, I think this works in Zaurus with pdaXrom!
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/howtos/n...ok_new/x600.htm (http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/howtos/netbook_new/x600.htm)

From this URL: http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/handhelds.html (http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/handhelds.html)

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./Xipaq -screen 320x240 -card pcmcia -screen 640x480x8x60
PCMCIA: Found Voyager VGA card
got to miRandRInit
RRGeneration = 0, serverGeneration = 1
rrPrivIndex = 3
got back successfully from RRScreenInit
got to miRandRInit
RRGeneration = 1, serverGeneration = 1
got back successfully from RRScreenInit
Aborted

More:
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipa...lity_2fVideoOut (http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/IpaqHardwareCompatibility_2fVideoOut)

Any ideia, help??