SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Displays

Note: Also see "DPMS" in Power and "Touch Screens" in Pointing Devices.

Misc:

• Ask Slashdot: Multiple Monitor Fun
• Ask Slashdot: Flat Screens and Linux
• Snake Oil, Miracle Cures, and Computer Monitors  With vender links on page 2.

LCDs:

• EIO's LCD Products (Lots of mostly surplus LCD stuff and more.)
• LCDproc (LCD display driver for Linux)
• a small LCD display

Monitors, CRTs:

• Links to monitor specs
• PC Monitor Specs (dead; not updated since 1996?)
• Philips Monitor Control  "control the Philips 17" Brilliance"
• The Linux/XFree86 Monitor Database (XFree86 modelines)

Projectors, LCD Projectors:

• Projectors normally just appear as a monitor. You should be able to just plug it into your video port and tell your laptop to use the external interface (usually a function-5 key on a Toshiba). Check the supported H and V sync rates for the projector to get the limits for your XF86Config file.
• Ask Slashdot: LCD Projectors
• ITU's TVOSD Module  Text from serial port to TV or overlay TV signal.

Visors, eyeglass displays (for displays including virtual reality):

• MicroOptical Corp. (eyeglasses display, microelectromechanical systems)
• VSD - Visual Retinal Display (Microvision's system to project images into an eyeball)

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