Dual screen not mirrored?

[EricaLina]

Does anyone have any clues to give as to setting up dual screen on the Nanopi m6?

 

I searched the forum and found nothing. I don't know why I can never easily find

Anything here. The forum shows one post for the Nanopi m6 and I know that can't be right.

 

The Nanopi mirrors by default, and that is just not going cut it.  

 

Currently installing X on a minimal install.

But that's the next thing. Get a reasonablf sized terminal up.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, EricaLina said:

Does anyone have any clues to give as to setting up dual screen on the Nanopi m6?

What do you mean by that? You mean LCD screen on the device and HDMI monitor. This should probably work OOB on vendor 6.1.y kernel. It should also work with mainline, but I haven't tested that and I am not sure that this is included in latest stable build as it was added not long ago. Try build from sources, use EDGE kernel perhaps.

 

1 hour ago, EricaLina said:

I searched the forum and found nothing.

 

It is very specific case - probably nobody asked for that before. At least I don't recall.

 

1 hour ago, EricaLina said:

The forum shows one post for the Nanopi m6 and I know that can't be right.

 

Core features are based on SoC, so when you are looking for clues, look wider - Orange 5 *, Khadas Edge 2, Bananapi M7, ... all that carries RK3588 SoC.

 

1 hour ago, EricaLina said:

Currently installing X on a minimal install.

Best is to start with recommended Gnome image. That is most polished.

[EricaLina]

This is on minimal. So no xorg or Wayland. But I use xorg normally.

 

I generally start with minimal and work up.

I despise both Ubuntu and gnome.

You won't find those on any computer I own. I compromise with xfce for the little time I might use it before I have everything set up.

 

I've just reversed direction and installed debian xfce stable. Mostly to avoid the hassle of replacing net plan with network manager.  A PIA.  

 

I can uninstall all the stuff I don't like that comes with the desktop version. Probably easier.

 

With xfce there are two screens, but the one on the built in screen seems to be double the size it should be.  I can only see half the dog.  

 

I can live with that for now. At least it uses the Fullscreen of the HDMI.