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This post is quite technical -- bear with me ..
This weekend I am planning on embarking on what can best be described as a very exciting electronics project for computer monitors. It's a little complex, so bear with me ..
Now, it is all based around the idea that Eyefinity can not mix portrait and landscape monitors within 1 desktop space - which annoys many users including me.
like many I have read from, I have monitors in the following resolution:
1200*1600 2560*1600 1200*1600
The outside two are in portrait -- the middle in landscape. So, despite the fact this makes a perfect pixel rectangle, for eyefinity I'm scuppered as its a PLP formation.
However I have a cunning plan. I know that eyefinity hates SOFTWARE like windows or drivers altering orientation (it stops it working). I can understand why. So, we need no software altering of orientation within our setup...
Therefore my plan is to build an electronics device that fits between the graphics card out-socket and where I plug the portrait monitors into. It will announce to windows that I have 3 monitors, and that they are all definately in landscape and no 'software rotating image' is required -- and 2 of the LANDSCAPE monitors have the rather bizarre LANDSCAPE resolution of 1200*1600.
Keeping up? Eyefinity thinks 'Wahay -- 3 landscape monitors -- a total resolution of an exact rectangle .. 4960*1600 -- OK, I'm good with that'. Gaming heaven. And something which no human being on the planet has achieved yet.
So, here's my plan in more detail
The DVI-cable has many pins. The ONLY two I am specifically interested in is PIN 8, and Pin C4. The analog vertical sync, and the analog horizontal pin.
My plan is simple -- leave all the other pins EXACTLY as they are, but swap these two around within my device - just for the outside 2 monitors.
The concept is that the monitor will then report to windows its landscape resolution of 1200*1600 -- windows will think 'uh - fair enough I'll accept that as a wierd shaped landscape monitor' and the rest is easy -- effectively through electronics trickery and deceit -- mixed portrait/landscape eyefinity..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI_cable
My question is this -- can anyone here think of any good reason why this amazingly simple solution would not work? Have I had my first ever stroke of genious? Did I even explain myself sufficiently ...?
Thanks for any advice (especially if I'm definately wasting my time and it definately won't work),
Britters ..
This weekend I am planning on embarking on what can best be described as a very exciting electronics project for computer monitors. It's a little complex, so bear with me ..
Now, it is all based around the idea that Eyefinity can not mix portrait and landscape monitors within 1 desktop space - which annoys many users including me.
like many I have read from, I have monitors in the following resolution:
1200*1600 2560*1600 1200*1600
The outside two are in portrait -- the middle in landscape. So, despite the fact this makes a perfect pixel rectangle, for eyefinity I'm scuppered as its a PLP formation.
However I have a cunning plan. I know that eyefinity hates SOFTWARE like windows or drivers altering orientation (it stops it working). I can understand why. So, we need no software altering of orientation within our setup...
Therefore my plan is to build an electronics device that fits between the graphics card out-socket and where I plug the portrait monitors into. It will announce to windows that I have 3 monitors, and that they are all definately in landscape and no 'software rotating image' is required -- and 2 of the LANDSCAPE monitors have the rather bizarre LANDSCAPE resolution of 1200*1600.
Keeping up? Eyefinity thinks 'Wahay -- 3 landscape monitors -- a total resolution of an exact rectangle .. 4960*1600 -- OK, I'm good with that'. Gaming heaven. And something which no human being on the planet has achieved yet.
So, here's my plan in more detail
The DVI-cable has many pins. The ONLY two I am specifically interested in is PIN 8, and Pin C4. The analog vertical sync, and the analog horizontal pin.
My plan is simple -- leave all the other pins EXACTLY as they are, but swap these two around within my device - just for the outside 2 monitors.
The concept is that the monitor will then report to windows its landscape resolution of 1200*1600 -- windows will think 'uh - fair enough I'll accept that as a wierd shaped landscape monitor' and the rest is easy -- effectively through electronics trickery and deceit -- mixed portrait/landscape eyefinity..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI_cable
My question is this -- can anyone here think of any good reason why this amazingly simple solution would not work? Have I had my first ever stroke of genious? Did I even explain myself sufficiently ...?
Thanks for any advice (especially if I'm definately wasting my time and it definately won't work),
Britters ..
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