[iyonix-support] Re: DVI on Iyonix

  • From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:18:51 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed 07 Mar, Tennant Stuart wrote:
> 
> On Tue  6 Mar 2007 (09:26:06 +0000), David Rruck wrote:
> >tennant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tennant Stuart) wrote:
> 
> >> > > Now all I need is an MDF for 1366 x 768 at 60/70/75Hz... pretty
> >> > please?
> >
> >[snip]
> > 
> >> Thanks Dave, but that doesn't work - the screen becomes a mess of
> >> diagonal streaks, running from upper left to lower right. I guess
> >> that they're due to faulty timing parameters, part of what makes
> >> !MakeModes so hard to use. :(
> 
> >Well to get any further you either need to experiment using !MakeModes,
> >or find the  exact timing parameters, either from the monitor
> >documentation, or from a PC driver information file.
> 
> More than 15 seconds then... and what's a PC driver information file?
> 
> Anyway, it's of no consequence now, since Eric has solved the problem by
> pointing out that 1366 can't be the right number. I've checked with the
> instruction manual, and that is what's given; it must be a mistake.

No mistake! The monitor manufacturer could make tit 1367 pixels wide.
The problem is the RISC OS video system which expects the total horizontal
pixels to be divisible by 4 or 8 (dependant on mode used and OS version?)



Chris Evans

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