LCD panels

[stoko]

and just doughter card!
take it off and connect LCD!!!

[stoko]

is anyone willing to search the web for some PDFs with schemes/diagrams/pinouts of those wideo cards?

[zardoz]

Found this today....follow the links to get DVI pinout info... also panellink specs.

Zardoz

[zardoz]

http://www.unigraf.fi/PAGES/testeq/viatmds.htm

haste makes waste

[zardoz]

just about every vid connection pinout made I think.....post your sollutions folks

http://www.ati.com/support/faq/pinouts.html


Zardoz

[zardoz]

Update...I just brought home a Radeon 8500LE SVGA,S-Video aannd DVI. Also in my travels I found a Sharp LM64C353 LCD panel. It's identified as having a Compaq spare's ID DSPLY PNL,CSTN, 10.4

This vid card is new aannd under warranty sooo.... just to find the panel pinouts... allready have the Radeon's.....hmmmm



It's all good ! till the magic smoke comes out! ~L~

[Mario007]

Just recently bought an used IBM docking station I for my thinkpad 765xd. Got manuals and everything which was cool. But the most pertinent thing to the lcd panels is it has two VGA connectors. One is standard laptop video out to external monitor another is a 15 connector that the manual says is for inputting external computer input. It is designed to have one pin missing. If anyone could find a pinout of this cable I would test it and report back.

[Lifter]

Originally posted by stoko
lifter!
if you have video card that has connector for external DVI transmitter, then you can hook up laptop LCD directly to it!
you just need pinout for LCD and that connector!
it gives all the signals that you need!

Not true. You can't just connect a DVI cable to a panel. It's like hooking up Firewire to a USB port. It won't work. Completely different signals. I'm sure some of the signals like V-sync are the same, but that's it. There's also auxilury signals to consider, like on/off, brightness and contrast controls, etc.

Think of it this way. Think of the flat panel cable/connecter inside a laptop as CAT-5 cable for networking. Now think of DVI as your phone line w/ DSL. You can't just splice some wires and hook up the network cable from your PC's nic card directly to the phone jack. You need the DSL modem. Think of a DVI reciever as the DSL modem. Make sense?

I haven't worked with this stuff in 3 years, so I guess it's possible that some newer laptops have DVI systems in them. But I highly doubt it. There is absolutely no reason for it and it would be a complete waste of money. Why have DVI in a laptop when the panel's connecter is inches away from the motherboard? The whole purpose of DVI is for long distance transmissions (like a desktop monitor). If laptop panels all used DVI, they'd all be interchangable- and that's obviously not the case. The daughtercard of the video card you posted is the DVI transmitter. You need a DVI reciever on the panel's end. I really wish it was possible to easily hook up a laptop LCD to a PC w/o extra hardware. Unfortunatly it isn't. The cheapest route to go, if you can find one, is to buy a digital to analog VGA converter for the specific panel. Lots of places make them for many different models.

[Lifter]

Originally posted by fungus
If someone had a working laptop with an USB port.

Then it would be possible to connect a TV tuner to it.


Do you guys think using this for a projection setup could work?


My main concern is luminosity. A laptop LCD is very different than a projection LCD, so I wonder if it can be done (without disassembling the laptop of course).



Please tell me someone already did this and got good results

Are you sure there are USB TV tuners? USB is 12mbit, and that's not nearly enough bandwith for video. Maybe USB 2.0.

[fungus]

Originally posted by Lifter


Are you sure there are USB TV tuners? USB is 12mbit, and that's not nearly enough bandwith for video. Maybe USB 2.0.

Avermedia makes one:

http://www.avermedia.com/products/tv...erTV_usb.shtml

They sell it for 90$ on their website, but you can probably get it cheaper on


Hauppauge makes one too:

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3331902 (60$)


So does D-Link:

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3025699