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Beginners • Re: Can raspberry pi 5 use usb monitors

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I was more wondering how it could work as it only has a USB connector. Raspberry Pi OS has only limited capability to send video out through a USB socket and I wouldn't have thought this display would be compatible with what it does support.
Most likely via a DisplayLink chip (now bought out by Synaptics).
The earlier versions of those chips are supported by the UDL driver that is in the standard Pi kernels.
I am aware of those. I have a number of them which worked fine under Raspbian Jesse but never so well since - Which reminds me I really need to try again under Bookworm - viewtopic.php?t=358439

I have however never personally seen Display Link 1.0 (USB2) chips in any actual product other than Display Adapters and 2.0 (USB3) needs an X86-only binary blob driver.

The product claims "The monitor display supports for USB AIDA64 and for Rasp Pi," which seems a truncated sentence, and more so later. I don't know what "AIDA64" is, whether Pi supports that, and would have expected Display Link 1.0 to have been explicitly mentioned if it did support that.

Added : AIDA64 seems to be a software product used to collate and report system status on an attached text or graphical LCD using a variety of interfaces and protocols. It may be that the display is intended to be more bit-banged than frame buffer video display.

We may have to wait to see what the OP reports.

Statistics: Posted by hippy — Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:35 pm



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