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Originally Posted by qole View Post
To make it work, we had to connect the tablet to the USB2VGA device, then run "sudo modprobe sisusbvga" (or something like that). Up popped the tablet screen on the projector! Not bad. But most of the animations in my presentation showed on the tablet screen, but not on the projected screen. Wouldn't be any good for watching video or playing arcade games.

I got Graham Cobb and the Nokia guy together, and they talked a bit; supposedly the Nokia IT guys are trying to get official permission to release their video out hacks, which include some kind of kernel patches.
When thinking about it, it should work and is doable only on kernel side. When display device is slow (like VNC over network or this adapter) the trick is to not to update whole display periodically but send only changes in smallest possible rectangles when they are actually drawn. Problem with this in general is to find out where on the screen something changed. Good news is that we already have this problem solved because of external videochip in our tablets. It already works like this so this kernel hack can just hook into omap framebuffer update commands and send same rectangles sent to Epson chip over USB too. Or better just record rectangle coordinates and send relevant rectangle data asynchronously with some clever skipping/merging when it becomes too fast. I hope they will make the source public. If not, this is possible to reimplement as opensource (with enough time and motivation).
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Last edited by fanoush; 2008-09-23 at 08:17.
 

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