G50V - Anyone find a use for the OLED display?

It was cute at first to have my name on it but now I've disabled Direct Console because I don't use Windows Mail, Windows Messenger, or any of those things. CPU Load is nice but I'd really like to take more advantage of this eye candy, it's one of the nicer things about the laptop.

I use AIM, wish it would work with that. I also use GMail not windows mail, wish it would work with that. What can you do though.

I'm very curious to what creative ways people are using the display though, I'm sure there's people more creative than I who have figured it out

Thanks,
Matt

 

Its good to make a sig with Thats my use.

 

Hahaha... that's what mine is currently "berardi1111" such a shame! it's pretty but this thing has so much potential.

 

Check this out at the bottom of the page.............
http://monalisa.cern.ch/blog/2008/09/16/ubuntu-on-asus-g50v/

 

I've already suggested this a couple of times, you might try to collaborate with Predator MF to get LCDHype working with G50. Or if you feel up to it, you can try it without his help.

See the G1S OLED thread.

 

Thanks, I offered to provide any help to him that I can, but without any guidance I don't have a clue where to start He said maybe some time but right now he's too busy to try.


I am good with computers but don't have a clue when it comes to scripting or coding

 

Ahhh nice... at least someone's working on it. Unfortunately I'm using Vista, and although I do enjoy playing with Ubuntu, there are too many features still not supported by Linux for me to switch.

Thanks for pointing that out though, Google failed to show me that one

 

I already tried to work with him some, first thing he wanted was the res of the oled screen and I have no way to find out. My best idea was to take a macro photo with my camera while having as much text in there as possible but it still did not work out well.

Now that I know its a USB device and I know its vid & pid, if I can just figure out how to tie that into lcdhype I can probably start some guess work for resolution and all that. Once I have that going Predator can pretty easily take over.

 

You would think asus would want to release spec sheets for the OLED for their laptops to the public. Theirs nothing but benefit and usability that can come from it.

 

Hey all

When I play Phantasy Star Universe on my G50 it affects the OLED - completely filling it so the whole thing is lit up.

I could try to take a macro pic if anyone is interested.

 

yes yes please! ill count them i'll be the peon of this task! HAHA

 

Just gotta be using a good setting, My macro shot had them bleed together, so use a ultra low sensitivty and fast shutter speed and it should work.

I love PSU, was just about to start playing 1 player again, I got banned online somehow I dont even know why as it happened while my account was not active. Sega sent me an email regarding my account saying nobody knows why I was banned and nobody that works there now was part of the team when it happened but there policy is all bans are for life so they wont lift it >< so even tho great game, horrible company.

 

That sucks!! Can't wait for private servers for PSU.

I'll see how I go with taking pics tonight (Aussie time). I'll post if I manage to capture anything decent.

 

Here we go

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/DrArnott/G50V#5257651312971545282

 

You may not have to count, the asusoled page ( http://lapsus.berlios.de/asus_oled.html) from the ubuntu link earlier says UPDATE: SVN version of Asus_OLED now supports also larger (256x32) OLED displays found in new G50 and G70 models - thanks to Costin Grigoras!

So it seems they are 256x32.

 

Nice One!!

 

sorry one question here... i am using msn live messager... however the OLED display doesn't seems to show any unread msn message to me???? may i know how to make it work???

 

So point Predator to this thread, also somebody posted the pid&vid earlier in another thread, with that he should be able to get us into the same stuff as they have for the G1S OLED.

 

Sent him a message, hopefully when he gets a chance we'll be able to go beyond "Republic of Gaming" and fancy signatures lol

 

Hehe, got the message, looks like that guy Costin Grigoras did the harder work researching and reversing the G50's OLED (I would be happy to do it if I had the G50..), so it will be easier to update the G' driver for LCDHype. Thanks for that, standby for your driver a couple of days

Edit: Maybe you guys gonna buy me one G50 after that...lol ?

 

Any G50 owner that could dedicate 1-2 hours of his time for "live" beta testing will be appreciated... any of these live messengers:
... (EDIT: removed from the author, contact by PM)

 

Predator_MF

As long as i have no chance of voiding any of my warranty's id be happy to help this project along but the only messaging client I use is Aim, <been contacted so contact information is not needed anymore>

 

I'll help too I have Yahoo but I don't get home until later tonight.... Excited!

 

The worst thing that could happen while testing is to crash your Windows, but that's almost impossible with me

 

I just bought mine, and I cant tell you how much I appreciate everyone helping get more functionality out of this... One of the PERFECT uses for this screen for me would be to see who is talking on Vent or TS during gaming so I dont have to use crappy overlays. That and AIM would be greatly appreciated.

Id also like to donate some time to helping this cause, but I don't have any time in the immediate future, though early next week, id most likely have some time.

In any case, keep up the great work!

 

People,

these threads are indexed by google very often. Do you want your email addresses, ICQ, AIM, etc to get indexed by google? If not, edit your posts and remove them.

(I know I wouldn't want them indexed...)

 

I thought of that while I was writing them, but I have really good spam protection Anyway, you are right, I guess I'll reformat them

 

predators already contacted me so i removed my contact information, hopefully we can get it working in the next few days

 

OK, great, so while I'm trying to get the OLED driver working with G50 (it's almost done, we already have the G1 driver to recognize the G50 OLED and attach to it...), it would be great if couple of you guys do the rest of the job and port the Megascript for LCDHype to G50 OLED. That is, the Megascript "screens" are made for G1's OLED size - 128x32, they have to be ported to 256x32. Not that hard work, since the core of the Megascript will need no changes, just the screens that actually show some data.

Those of you willing to participate in this, download and install LCDHype 0.6 plus the 0.6.0.5 update, then download the Megascript 2.0 beta (down in my signature). They will work on any Laptop or PC with the "preview driver". You'll not get output to G50 yet, but you can work on the scripts with the preview window. Get familiar with LCDHype's language and the way of creating screens, then get familiar with the way the Megascript works. Also, read the G1S OLED thread, you'll find usefull information about how those screens work.

For more information and technical questions on the Megascript, contact me on PM, I'll be glad to help you.

 

Anybody found a way to use the MSN Messenger feature of the OLED display? I turned it on but nothing happens.

 

I'm playing with LCDHype and the script settings at the moment, but I have to give you some MAD props Predator. I've been trying to expand the use of this silly little OLED and you are making it a reality. Thanks holmes!

 

Playing with LCDHype too and I imported the Mega script. The LCDHype app leaves a bit to be desired as far as user friendliness

Thanks Predator for helping us with this

 

It's nice to see that someone is working on the oled display. But what I am really interested in is whether I can turn off the blue leds that are located on the G50/G71 case/lid.
Is it correct that those leds turn on automatically when you turn on the system?
Is there a way to turn them off permanently?
Is there a way to turn them off once WindowsXP is started?
Is there a way to turn them off with Linux?

 

In Window XP, try with the Megascript 2.0 and the GLED plugin, I assume the blue LED in G50 is the same as the GLED in the G1, so practically it should be controlled the same way. To make this more simple, you can only try the GLED plugin with LCDHype and the test scripts I posted there.

 

i have been trying out the LCDHype for some time... quite a nice program for u to do fancy things... is the driver for g50v available now??? itchy hand la.... thanks to predator!!

 

Not ready yet, have to figure out few workarounds for driving G50's OLED, it has problem with ON/OFF commands and the picture is little bit scrambled...I'm working on it, when I'm ready I'll let you know

 

Thanks again Predator! Can't wait

 

Me either. I check this thread more than my email.

...twiddles his thumbs...

 

I can't wait for this ! Great work Predator, much appreciated !

Unfortunately not. The LEDs cannot be controlled by the G1 GLED plugin, it doesn't seem to be compatible with the new G series.

 

Well, we'll work around that too when I get the OLED working.

I'll appreciate it if one of you guys zip the contents of the "installed" directconsole and PM it to me.

 

I turned it on but nothing happens.

 

Any update on this ? Were you able to get something working ?

Thanks !

 

Yes we got it working, have patience!

 

My OLED just does not react for anything. It constantly shows the logo and the republic of gamers regardless of what would I like to do with it. It does not show the battery either...

Someone pleaaaase help me!

 

Hi. I've been working with my oled in windows and got it working quite nice. Currently making a spectrum visualizer for foobar2000 that displays on the oled
Both the leds and the oled where quite easy to get working, dunno how you other guys did, i use the dll's that came with directconsole to control them.

 

There's no problem running the OLED with the DLL's from DirectConsole, they export whole classes for control, but what I am trying to do is write my own driver with my own implementation inside, for best speed and flexibility is best to do it this way.

 

A noble quest, but is it really worth it, except for the fun of it? The dll's provide me with simple hdc-passing and sufficient speed to draw a sound spectrum. How is another driver going to make it better? (just curious)

 

I think it's awesome all of this is for the fun of it!

 

Thanx Pred! I would have no problem making a small donation if you set it up @ the dl site...

 

Do the DC DLLs work on Windows XP ? If not, then you just got your answer...