Linux on obsolete displays
posted Jun 2nd 2006 5:00am by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: pcs hacks
[bryan chafy] has been hacking away to get older non VGA displays running on VGA hardware without using a scan converter. You can pick these old grayscales up for cheap or even free. The tricky part is modifying the BIOS to reprogram the VGA card to output a sync and scanrate that is NTSC compliant. He’s managed to do this with a WYSE Winterm thin-client. Another clever trick is the poor man’s triple head display which stores a different image in each portion of the RGB signal.





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Posted at 5:24 pm on Jun 2nd, 2006 by olliestyles