Eee PC Capable of Outputting 1600×1280 Resolution
October 21st, 2007 by antIt’s been recently rumored that when outputting video on Eee PC devices to a monitor through the VGA port, the resolutions would be limited to rather low sizes. However one of our forum users, cheesemp (who recently got his hands on his very own Eee PC from Taiwan), has now verified that the Eee PC can in fact output 1600×1280 resolution through the VGA port. Good news!
You can read the post here.
October 21st, 2007 at 10:36 pm
very nice.
October 21st, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Nice. Now all we need is that they actually sell these computers in the US so that we can buy one (that is if the pre-ordering stores actually get their computers, which I have started to doubt since Asus has continuously only mentioned Best Buy and New Egg as the places to sell the EEE)
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:21 am
tercero, when eee in europe?
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:38 am
Kewl
Even more tempting to get this small thingy-bingy for the use of movie-watchin’.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:07 am
I am willing to bet that we may be able to change the resolution on the 7″ panel as well. With a little hacking of the X11 config file. maybe increase it to a from 800 to 1024 WS.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 am
Khe khem. What hacking? If the LCD matrix can’t support more it can’t support it. Douh.
There are simply no pixels extra - only 800×480.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 am
William > LCDs are fixed resolution. It is physically impossible to increase the resolution. Please don’t be so rude to LayZ when you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about yourself.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:42 am
You can still increase the resolution above the LCDs max and it will increase the real estate so you can see webpages not written for 800 res. You may have the side effect of blurry fonts. Then again you may not. Clearly I understand more than you. Go learn Linux.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
Hey guys, I think this is just a misunderstanding…
What Willian is saying is right, as X11/Linux is capable that. This means that you can use for instance 800×600, and you can reach the missing 120 pixel (600 “virtual pixels” less 480 physical) just moving the mouse around, and the screen automatically scrolls when necessary.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
You can also have an LCD run a non-native resolution, but graphics and fonts may be rendered with jaggies.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I reckon he thought the possibility of virtually zooming out - antialising makes the trick but that just gives blurry fonts and a bit of pleasure as you emulate a normal size display.
Any ways, Beryl with the proper shortcut does the same trick with a quadrupled effect with the same resolution.
P.S. The guy who told to learn Linux was probably a windows vista user because haven’t seen such inferior creatures use linux. Peace.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Oh and yeah i admit my usage of the popular internet acronyms may be annoying at some times, but my knowledge is quite a bit larger than it seems by looking at my style of posting.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:08 pm
It seems the waiting has gotten to all of us.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
All-
I’m really upset with all of the comments I had to moderate on this thread. This is an Eee PC website, there is no reason for name calling, foul language, or disrespect.
From now on, all comments will have to be moderated.
It really is a shame.
-Ant
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:53 pm
“What Willian is saying is right, as X11/Linux is capable that. This means that you can use for instance 800×600, and you can reach the missing 120 pixel (600 “virtual pixels†less 480 physical) just moving the mouse around, and the screen automatically scrolls when necessary.”
windows 95 had that capability so i;m sure xp does too.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Anyone thought of installing OSX in this things? hehe. It uses Intel 900GMA
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
To admin: Good job on cutting all those comments! I was so upsad to see all those comments this morning. =(
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
It would be great if it can run OSX!!! I’ll try it for sure!
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
What about the framebuffer resolution?Is it the same?
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
My friend told me, he will get a 80G (yes, 80!) version eeepc next week for software development. I will tell you guys when he get it. !!
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
“It would be great if it can run OSX!!! I’ll try it for sure!”
Why would you want to run OS X when you can run Ubuntu Gutsy?
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ubuntu+gutsy&
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:56 pm
When I use my Eee PC with VGA output to a momitor in 1600 x 960, the output monitor can see all desktop ,but monitor on Eee PC only have the left and upper half desktop.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:56 pm
I bought a Dell 1420n (the one with Ubuntu pre-installed) a bit ago and I had a idea that would be funny.
The resolution on the Dell is 1440×960 widescreen.
Well this thing is 800×640, right?
Well this Dell is pretty much my desktop nowadays… but a little extra screen realstate would be kick-ass.
So I think I am going to combine their displays.
There are several ways to do this… You can use Synergy to make the mouse and keyboard go across both displays (this works between Linux and Windows and OS X).
You can make synergy work better by combining things like PulseAudio (network audio) and X-over-SSH (secure network GUI) to make running GUI apps and multimedia transparent over the network. (this means I can run apps from my 1420n on the EEE and visa versa).
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
And since they devices use Intel video you can use AIGLX and get 3D acceleration working over the network.
Also for a desktop that stretches across both devices you can combine Chromium and DMX. DMX is “distributed multihead X”.
DMX allows you to combine multiple computer’s displays into a single large desktop. Chromium allows you go have OpenGL applications work over multiple displays.
This is more complicated then using synergy, but you can have applications that go back and forth and stretch across both laptop’s displays.
Why would I want to do this??
Because imagine you have the 1440×960 display on your main laptop. Now imagine the EEE with it’s display rotated and the laptop sitting on it’s side.
This way with the EEE running 480×800 (sideways) this makes it perfect for having documents and text you can read and work on while having lots of windows open on the other desktop.
It would be a nice dual-display thing and it’s still cheap and mobile.
When I want high mobility I’ll carry around just the EEE. When I have work to get done I’ll use both with a more-or-less 1920×960 resolution display and still be fairly mobile.. (the eee can fit into the pocket of my laptop bag and it won’t add much weight).
If I go full bore on it I can have a dual laptop display with full opengl desktop and be able to transparently run applications from either laptop on either laptop.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Oh, so if you don’t understand what I am saying check out:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2299197544122308801&q=quake+24&total=65&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
That’s a guy playing Quake3 on Linux using a cluster of 12 computers and LCD 24 displays.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:53 am
Pastebt - quite impossible by my standards to make an 80G flash memory version because an 8G flash memory is quite a investment not even talking about 10 of ‘em. AND there is absolutely no space to outfit the eeepc with a normal HDD so i think it isn’t possible.
nate - i don’t think that it was a smart idea to buy another laptop since these things by the same specs cost 3 and more times more than a desktop with the same specs. Instead you could have bought a large flat panel display with a higher resolution and larger screen, but thats just my humble opinion.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
LayZ - I am not sure. Maybe they have a bigger (thicker?) body eeepc, then they can put a 1.8 HDD into it? Of cause it is possible that next week my friend told me he get a 8G, then I will kill him
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Shouldn’t do that - you’ll surely get into custody.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
“nate - i don’t think that it was a smart idea to buy another laptop since these things by the same specs cost 3 and more times more than a desktop with the same specs. Instead you could have bought a large flat panel display with a higher resolution and larger screen, but thats just my humble opinion.”
No I can’t. Not one that I can carry around with me. That’s the point.
Depending on how mobile I want to be I can have a 1440×960 display, a 800×640 display, or a 2080×960 (give or take 120 pixels) display.
It’ll totally kick ass.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Well that’s one way of thinking.
Since laptop’s are quite light these days it’s quite a reasonable idea.
Ehm.. 1440×960? That’s the resolution of my 22″ widescreener monitor at which i am sitting now (of course non-laptop).
Then how large is your laptop’s display?
October 24th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
There are in fact a lot of laptops with 1440×960 pixels, at 17 inch. I work at one myself.
November 10th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Hello,
I just found this thread, and maybe someone is able to tell me a simple (or not
thing: Would the EEE be able to serve as a media center in my living room, streaming video (connected to a TV set or LCD) and audio?
That would make it much better than the Apple Mni, too. And given that it might be possible to scale up the resolution, this would be just another great use.
Thanks for enlightening me,
FB
November 10th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
You can play xvid on the eee but you can’t get mp4 HD stuff out of it. Might work if you use a VLC server to stream, I don’t know, and you will need to use a computer monitor as a TV.
So no it’s not better than a Mac Mini.
November 16th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Erik,
thanks a lot. So xvid works, mpeg4 works, HD doesn’t, right?
And 1280×1240 resolution works on an external monitor, right?
At least it might pose a good, portable, fan-less alternative to any Media Center PC/ Mac Mini IMO. Should be really silent then.
Or is there something which speaks against using the EEE for this purpose?
Thanks, and have a good day,
Marcus
November 16th, 2007 at 9:31 am
It’s not fanless, it sounds more or less the same as other small laptop. I don’t know how good it is to remove the fan and then watch movies, perhaps install a really big fan to make it quieter.
I an watch my xvids which are a type of mp4 I’ve heared. But I can’t watch the ones I have in *.mp4 format, but they are better resolution. YMMV