I found an ancient piece of hardware. An old notebook with a 10" 800x600 
LCD. Is it hard to drive a notebook LCD with some SBC or FPGA? Are there 
standards for this?

Atilla

atilla wrote:

> I found an ancient piece of hardware. An old notebook with a 10" 800x600 
> LCD. Is it hard to drive a notebook LCD with some SBC or FPGA? Are there 
> standards for this?

It is not hard to drive the notebook LCD with the notebook. The 
standards for this are keyboard, mouse, Ethernet, LPT, COM and USB.

VLV

atilla wrote:
> I found an ancient piece of hardware. An old notebook with a 10" 800x600 
> LCD. Is it hard to drive a notebook LCD with some SBC or FPGA? Are there 
> standards for this?
> 
> Atilla
> 
Most notebook have a VLSI chip with the LCD controller on it.

With out the chips on the mother board, you may never be able to drive 
that LCD display.

So to answer you question, it depends.

It depends more on your ability then the LCD display itself.

Good Luck, you will need it.

don


PS: If you want a real answer, please post the model number of the 
laptop and the part number of the LCD display.

In article <h54s80$4lf$2...@news.eternal-september.org>, 
a...@noneofyourbusiness.org says...
> I found an ancient piece of hardware. An old notebook with a 10" 800x600 
> LCD. Is it hard to drive a notebook LCD with some SBC or FPGA? Are there 
> standards for this?

About the same as the standard Microsoft Word File format.

You will have to see if you can find the datasheet for the LCD in 
question as the models change every 3 months as well as the connectors
and signalling methods.

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atilla wrote:

> I found an ancient piece of hardware. An old notebook with a 10" 800x600 
> LCD. Is it hard to drive a notebook LCD with some SBC or FPGA?

The fact that you're asking this question already means that it'll 
almost certainly be too hard for you right now.

> Are there standards for this?

Not really.

On Aug 2, 6:00 pm, Paul Carpenter <p...@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk>
wrote:
> In article <h54s80$4l...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> ati...@noneofyourbusiness.org says...
>
> > I found an ancient piece of hardware. An old notebook with a 10" 800x600
> > LCD. Is it hard to drive a notebook LCD with some SBC or FPGA?

> You will have to see if you can find the datasheet for the LCD in
> question as the models change every 3 months as well as the connectors
> and signalling methods.

It may be easier to try to identify the LCD controller chip on the
motherboard, and then find the data sheet for that - with a goal to
either running the controller chip from something other than the
computer, or replacing the controller chip with an FPGA possibly plus
appropriate drivers.   Trying to identify chips on the back of the LCD
panel and look up their data sheets may also be an option.

Of course none of this is economical compared to buying something with
a documented driver solution.

On Aug 2, 6:00=A0pm, Paul Carpenter <p...@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk>
wrote:

> You will have to see if you can find the datasheet for the LCD in
> question as the models change every 3 months as well as the connectors
> and signalling methods.

Well, that's overstating it a *bit*. The panel will be either parallel
or LVDS interface, and in this vintage almost certainly parallel.
Assuming the notebook still works, it would not be terribly onerous to
scope out the signals and determine the refresh timing and supply
voltage. The big question (besides the OP's ability level) being - why?

In article <14a4bf38-f0fa-440f-8979-
2...@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, z...@gmail.com says...
> On Aug 2, 6:00=A0pm, Paul Carpenter <p...@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk>
> wrote:
>=20
> > You will have to see if you can find the datasheet for the LCD in
> > question as the models change every 3 months as well as the connectors
> > and signalling methods.
>=20
> Well, that's overstating it a *bit*. The panel will be either parallel
> or LVDS interface, and in this vintage almost certainly parallel.
> Assuming the notebook still works, it would not be terribly onerous to
> scope out the signals and determine the refresh timing and supply
> voltage. The big question (besides the OP's ability level) being - why?

That is if they can determine the connector and which is pin 1, the=20
bigger problem will be trying to dtermine without a datasheet which
of the many types of connector it is, having seen around that time nearly
every panel have a different connector.

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On Aug 3, 5:10=A0am, Paul Carpenter <p...@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk>
wrote:

> > scope out the signals and determine the refresh timing and supply
> > voltage. The big question (besides the OP's ability level) being - why?
>
> That is if they can determine the connector and which is pin 1, the
> bigger problem will be trying to dtermine without a datasheet which

Why do they need to care? They have one (count'em) panels. They have
one (count'em) notebook computers. They cut the cable or desolder the
connector off the cable. Tadaa!

Thanks for all the replies, I cannot give any more deatils atm. because it 
is in my family's house, not with me. As far as I understand, hacking 
something together is very hard so instead of recycling the panel, I should 
focus on recycling the whole machine.

atilla