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To show Bodhi with my Genesi Smartbook on a vga projector, I bought a Plugable usb 2.0 uga multi-display adapter with vga, dvi and hdmi connections, The Linux driver for this is in development so I have not yet been able to run it successfully on the Genesi Smartbook. However, I tried it on Kubuntu 12.04 beta 2 on my Asus eee and did get images on a vga monitor/projector. The driver web site is http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/ . Will this be working on Bodhi with Genesi in the near future? Any thoughts on whether the Genesi Smartbook could handle it? Genesi didn't think there would a problem but they haven't tested it yet. Thanks.
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Bodhi with Genesi Smartbook on a vga projector Will Bodhi soon have a driver for this?
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 07:16 PM
*buntus pull their packages almost directly from upstream Debian Testing - which is what Bodhi's ARM release is built on top of. Meaning the same configuration steps you took to get the device running in Kubuntu should also work with Bodhi. So the software is there - the only question is if the hardware of the Genesi can handle pushing video out.
Note that I have worked with a few display link devices in the past and they are always a decent headache under Linux (I actually own two of them).
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Note that I have worked with a few display link devices in the past and they are always a decent headache under Linux (I actually own two of them).
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 12:13 AM
Fox7799, on 24 April 2012 - 05:39 PM, said:
Any thoughts on whether the Genesi Smartbook could handle it? Genesi didn't think there would a problem but they haven't tested it yet. Thanks.
We have the (allegedly technically identical) Efika MX Smarttop, which is good up to 720P, just as advertised.
Have had problems with some TVs, but only because of their antique over-scan feature and/or insistence on booting into 1080p. Over-scan on an LCD/LED TV? Yes. Go figure!
I did a search on "Plugable usb 2.0 uga multi-display adapter +overscan" using Google and had zero hits, which is encouraging, since without the "+overscan" there were 93,000 hits.
Is this it here? ...and again at Amazon?
I'm not clear how intelligent the Plugable box is - whether it's fed with raw frame-buffer data or whether it behaves like (say) an nVidia-card-on-a-USB-wire.
I imagine that raw data shovelled down the USB would be less onerous to the CPU than sending the data and also massaging the DisplayLink chip via USB - have I got the right one in the link?
Be interested to know how this pans out. Hoping to borrow a projector with HDMI input some time in the future and just see how it works directly with the Efika MX.
Hope yours comes good!
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