MorphOS is out for MacMini G4! No cheaper Amiga available today!

[amigadave]

Try to sell the Efika and buy a key for your mini. The demand for Efikas is not the highest, but ...... It is a good base for projects like this: http://via.i-networx.de/eframe/eframe.htm

I was trying to sell my Efika, as I have had a 1.5GHz G4 MacMini running a registered copy of MorphOS2.4 for several months now, but since it has not sold I think I will copy that idea to make it into a picture frame media computer.  I have an old 500MHz Celeron laptop that is literally falling to pieces (the hinges have broken the plastic laptop casing) that I could get a 14.1 inch LCD display from, if I can figure out the wiring to convert it to accept an input cable from the DVI port of the Efika's ATI 9250 video card.  The picture frame project linked to above looks very nice and it is only a 10.3 inch LCD.

I think the picture frame project will be better and probably cooler without any fans if I use the 400MHz Efika running MorphOS2.4 than trying to keep and use the 500MHz Celeron laptop motherboard running Windows98, or some flavor of Linux.

@Hell Labs,  I would agree with you that the Efika is very limited due to it's low amount of RAM capability, but it is hardly "totally useless".  There are many things that the Efika can run and run well.  Some smart programmer might even write an application that allows MorphOS to use a swap partition as virtual memory which while not a good solution, would make the Efika better at running web browsers that cache pages and/or images to RAM and cause the Efika to crash.

[amigadave]

Take it from somebody who knows:

Laptop screen + doing anything to it = Need both a new laptop, and to buy an LCD for project anyway.

Even if you don't accidentally pull the ribbon cable off the back of the panel (permenently ruining it, as I did to an old dell someone gave me), figuring out the pinouts is pretty much impossible. It's not exactly standard vga in there.

Really?  I did not think it would be that difficult to figure out and why wouldn't there be some kind of standard for LCD screens?  I am sure this cheap laptop with it's PII Celeron CPU did not use some custom graphics card.  I bought it in July of 1999 and I am pretty sure it would use the cheapest off-the-shelf parts the builder could get their hands on as it is not a major brand name manufacturer.

Well, since it is literally falling apart, it won't hurt to take it the rest of the way apart and look at what is inside.

[amigadave]

@Amigadave

Do yourself a favor take a look on the DIY projector sites ... While lcd screens aren't quite standardised You can get a controller board off ebay that works with most of them(just a matter of ordering the proper cables.).  Speaking of that ... some day I'll have to finish my projector project. :-D

Not sure I understand your post above.  I am trying to find out if I will be able to make, or find a cable that will connect my Efika's ATI Radeon 9250 video card with DVI, VGA & Composite outputs to the really old LCD screen out of a laptop made in 1998/99.

I haven't yet taken it apart, so I don't know if the laptop uses an "off-the-shelf" video card that many other laptops of that time period used, or if it has integrated graphics that is unique to the motherboard used.  There has to be some way to find out how to wire a VGA or DVI plug to the existing wiring coming from the laptop's LCD display.