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Re: wearable prototype laid out

From: Bryan Hurley <>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:40:39 -0500 (EST)

I have used an HP pcmcia vga out card with an iPaq and that worked pretty
well under X.. you can get a CF->PCMCIA adapter for the zaurus and use it
but it would be an ugly kludge..

Bryan Hurley

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Don Papp wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Vito Miliano wrote:
>
> > if there are Linux
> > drivers available for the LifeView FlyPresenter CF (VGA/TV output CF
> > card), that could go in one of the two CF slots to provide true video
> > output!
>
> I don't know about other cards, but it is surely worth
> trying-before-you-buy for these CF Video out cards.
>
> I tried one for the Ipaq and it's about good for photo displays or
> powerpoint and that's IT.  Frame rate was, oh, 0.5 fps or so.  It was
> seriously, awfully, slow.  Totally unusable for any regular application.
>
> Also, text was unreadable on an M1/Kopin 320M unless you had the display
> in landscape mode (ie bent the display 90 degrees to see it in landscape).
> Otherwise the scaling made text unreadable if it was 240 across instead of
> 320 across.  Again, making it totally unusable for using any kind of
> regular application.
>
> Don Papp
>
>
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