Resolutions higher than VGA on Dell Axim x50v?

Hi

Dell sell a cable to connect the Axim x50v to an external VGA monitor. Does
anyone know whether it's possible to tweak the display driver etc. to output
higher resolutions than VGA, e.g. SVGA (800*600) or XGA(1024*768)?

The particular use isn't to run the PPC interface at a higher resolution but
rather for a custom OpenGL app using the PowerVR OpenGL ES hardware
accelerated implementation.

I know the graphics chip used by the Dell, Intel's 2700G chip is capable of
higher resolutions, it's more a question of whether it's possible to tweak
the PPC driver to enable those resolutions etc.

Thanks

SimonF
Thu Mar 10 05:13:51 CST 2005

Sean McLeod wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dell sell a cable to connect the Axim x50v to an external VGA
monitor. Does
> anyone know whether it's possible to tweak the display driver etc. to
output
> higher resolutions than VGA, e.g. SVGA (800*600) or XGA(1024*768)?
>
> The particular use isn't to run the PPC interface at a higher
resolution but
> rather for a custom OpenGL app using the PowerVR OpenGL ES hardware
> accelerated implementation.
>
> I know the graphics chip used by the Dell, Intel's 2700G chip is
capable of
> higher resolutions, it's more a question of whether it's possible to
tweak
> the PPC driver to enable those resolutions etc.
>
> Thanks

According to a colleague, the chip certainly allows it as does the
PowerVR reference driver but he doesn't know if the higher resolution
modes are enabled in the Intel/Dell variants of the driver.

He suggested:
"If this guy wants to code this up he'll have to get onto Intel Premier
support and there he should be able to download an SDK which will give
some insight into how all of this works. You need to create buffers and
then link them to the correct pixel pipe etc... looks complex but is
quite simple in the end. But it all depends on what modes are left in
the table inside the Dell/Intel variant of the driver."

Hope that's of help to you

Simon