G50V - Anyone find a use for the OLED display?

[berardi1111]

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

[ViciousXUSMC]

Its good to make a sig with :P Thats my use.

[berardi1111]

Its good to make a sig with :P Thats my use.

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

[stealthl]

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

[E.B.E.]

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.

[berardi1111]

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

[berardi1111]

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

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

[ViciousXUSMC]

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.

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.

[Errant33]

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.

[JasperA66]

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.