Is it possible?

[flooberjobby]

So... I been looking at Eyefinity and projectors and various LCDs, and thinking about how to make a mobile platform of it... and then I started to wonder.

Would it be possible to buy just a laptop screen, and modify the connectors into a Display port connector, or other such to hook up to a video card like a regular monitor?

I mean I have a 17.1 inch laptop screen with a resolution of 1920x1200 right now, and it looks freaking fabulous... and was thinking if I could hook it up to a SFF computer with a 5 series... or next gen card I could have an awsome mobile gaming Eyefinity system.


Anyone have any insight or something into doing some thing like this?

 

[Izza]

No. I believe what you are looking for is DDM.


From VESA.org:

New VESA® Direct Drive Monitor Panel Standard Set; Defines Minimum Functionality and Connector Configuration
Milpitas, Calif., Mar. 23, 2009 – The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today released a new standard that introduces a stand-alone Direct Drive Monitor (DDM) Panel with DisplayPort™ interface. The new standard defines all requirements for a Standard Direct Drive Monitor Panel connection using DisplayPort, along with the panel electronics. The parameters in the standard can be used for any standard sized panel using DisplayPort TCON with monitor electronics.

Based on the DisplayPort interface, the standard specifies a connector configuration, along with its mechanical dimensions and pin assignments. It also details the minimum functionality for DDM display panels. Other VESA standards are used for configuration management and operation.

The new DDM standard eliminates unnecessary duplication of complex electronics that are incorporated into displays now to let them mimic older CRT monitors and enable backward compatibility with any graphics subsystem. Duplication of scaling, color dithering, and other functions in the graphics hardware increases cost; eliminating duplication reduces costs and increases the reliability of the DDM display.

The standard specifies the connector and pin assignments to be used on panels for direct drive display applications. DDM Displays do not have complex timing or internal display controllers but instead connect directly to the graphics subsystems and convey native timing to the graphics subsystem for correct configuration.

The VESA DDM DisplayPort panels will use the same physical connector as VESA Standard LVDS panels. To ensure the panels will not accidentally be connected to LVDS sources or standard DisplayPort sources, panels conforming to the specification will display a warning label or engraving on the chassis.

The Direct Drive Monitor standard can be downloaded free of charge from www.vesa.org or www.displayport.org

 

[flooberjobby]

I havn't read your entire post yet.. but I'm talking about just modding a laptop monitor to use a desktop connect type deal.

I'm guessing that's not possible?

 

[Izza]

DisplayPort (DDM) is going to replace LVDS used by all current laptop LCDs, but it hasn't happened yet.

It will use the same physical connector, but you can't use an LVDS panel with DDM, and vice-versa.

There may be some sort of "hack" that allows it down the road, but to my knowledge it hasn't been done yet, and would probably be more trouble than it's worth IMHO.

If you really want to use that laptop panel, you're gonna need a controller, and they're not cheap unless you happen to find a busted LCD monitor you can harvest the controller board from. Also, it would have to be able to drive the panel in question. You'd also have to look up the spec sheet on the panel.

It's been done, but I'd guess that out of every 100,000 that want to try this, maybe 5 follow through.