Hello!
Recently I have been thinking about the flat panel adapters for the O2 and visual workstations, and came across someone's high resolution images for the O2 one.
I looked up the datasheets for most of the chips to see what they did, and I think it might be possible to design a custom flat panel adapter that outputs in HDMI or DVI.
From what I understand, the two Texas Instruments chips each take half of a 24 bit wide bus and turn it into two slower 24 bit busses (or one 48 bit bus?). The National Semiconductor chips turn those signals into LVDS. I'm quite certain that the rest of the chips are all stuff that supports those four chips. What I propose is design a board where instead of Those four chips, you have a single Sil 164 PanelLink transmitter (or modern alternative) and a DVI or HDMI port. There should be all the correct signals with the types of supporting circuitry already on the adapter. I don't know how to do any of this, all I know is that on paper, this will probably work.
If anyone smarter than me wants to figure this out, feel free to steal the idea.
mfw no smiley for visual workstation