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Re: LinITX touchscreen


  • Subject: Re: LinITX touchscreen
  • From: "wywywywywywywywywywy" <wywywywy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:20:29 -0000

Hi,

Search www.mp3car.com for the hacked bios.
It does work, I can assure you that.
Without the hacked BIOS, neither updated drivers nor Powerstripe will
work.

Thanks,
Wayne



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@...> wrote:
>
> I have one of the aforementioned widescreen 7-inch LinITX
touchscreens,
> which I'm running off a LinITX mobo, - a VIA EPIA M10000 Nehemiah
model.
>
>
>
> All is working fine except for one thing, - I can't get a 1:1 pixel
> mapping desktop resolution.
>
>
>
> The screen is 800x480 native resolution. The graphics driver for the
> onboard unichrome chipset offers a 640x480 or an 800x600 (i.e. 4:3
> ratio) desktop resolutions, but doesn't offer any widescreen aspect
> ratio resolutions.
>
>
>
> I'm guessing that my options are:
>
>
>
> Check VIA for updated drivers, & see if there are any that have
wide
> resolutions (doing that now).
>
> Live with it
>
> Try to use Powerstrip to create a custom resolution
>
>
>
> I can't really add a better graphics card, because the board only has
a
> single PCI interface, plus I've got it in one of the tiny travla cases
> which doesn't allow that slot to be used anyway.
>
>
>
> In the continued absence of the widgetstation, I'm planning for this
> combo to be my bedside HA interface and alarm clock.
>
>
>
> Anyone got any other suggestions...
>
>
>
> PS, it rather looks like the new graphics drivers I DL'd from VIA have
> completely hosed the machine.... L
>
>
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>





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