Multiple screens

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  1. DesertBaja

    DesertBaja New Member

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    Hi all,

    I have crawled the forums and found the statement that using multiple monitors (IE LVDS and an HDMI output) can only be achieved under Android at the present time. My question is... why? Is this a memory allocation issue in a linux environment? It seems like one of the demos shown on the youtube channel a while back was running a LVDS screen and a monitor off of the HDMI port with some sort of QT rendering. How was that accomplished? Multi monitor support has been a part of Ubuntu forever, along with every other debian like OS... so why not this ARM port?

    Also, I recall coming across someone saying that you could have two separate screens under the android distro. Is this true? Can you put android into extended desktop mode instead of mirror mode?

    Thanks for your time! Now UDOO that VOODOO that UDOO so well! :D
     
  2. Andrea Rovai

    Andrea Rovai Well-Known Member

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    Hi there!
    Actually it wasn't a QT rendering, it's been achieved with Yocto. By the way, the ARM port of multi-monitor-support is not our first objective. We are focusing on the new Kernel and on Android 4.4.
     

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