hey guys, im in the middle of working out an install for a laptop in my zed to run datascan and itunes. one problem im trying to work out though, how have people clearly displayed windows xp or vista on a 7" screen with resolution 480x234?? cheers ben
its not hard a few members on the forum hav done it....but yea basicly the eee pc laptop uses a 7" screen so you shouldnt hav a problem
I use PowerStrip to force my Lilliput EBY701 to show 800x480 (that's its maximum resolution). Normally it shows in 640x480 and stretches the image to fill the screen...GRRR so it took a bit of work with PowerStrip to get the calibration right but it got there in the end: The Lilliput screen has been disassembled and fitted into a double din mount: I run Centrafuse as my software front end. It has an inbuilt Media player, Interweb, GPS, and hosts of plugins to add on. All this runs off my ASUS EEE PC 701, overclocked of course to 1GHz to handle the daily stress I put on it. I'm sure you could use PowerStrip to calibrate XP to work on a 480x234 resolution but you wouldn't have much screen real estate to work with, and changing the DPI would make it harder to read. Here's the screen I have, $262 US plus shipping. Works brilliant and it's already fitted into a double din frame for you. I'v had this setup in my Yaris for about 6 months, only pulled it out yesterday to put it in the new Zed when I get it (hopefully today) =D
ok, im trying to run vista and the smallest size it will display is 800x600, which i can still read but not too easily, i would have bought more appropriate items but the laptop was $100 and its an 80gb, dual 1.6ghz 128mb graphics and 1.5gb of ram, so was worth the buy, and the screen was only $50
PowerStrip still works with Vista, it has a 30 day trial. If it doesnt work, you need a better screen.....
on 600 by 800 it works fine its just really hard to read, ok ill try that program later and see how i go, cheers
vista came with it and i dont have a legal copy of xp and iv already finished putting everything on it and for once vista's actually working for something
It's not a vista related issue... Another way to do it is to run some form of linux and write custom resolutions into the VGA driver... oh but wait, you can write custom resolutions into Vista and XP drivers if you know how... or then again not
burn... yeah iv had a look into rewriting the driver code but the laptops video card for some reason is really unstable, like i cant update it and changing almost any setting i have found to make it stop displaying, so decided not too
with powerstrip how do you resize the screen?? im trying to get it too 480x234 and i have no idea how edit, dont worry guys worked it out
