Terminal video corruption/sync problem - Tinker Board
Hi all,
I've got an application that runs from the terminal and with it failing to work on Tinker OS I've gone back to my default OS, Armbian, where it works faultless. However, everything worked great on my own 25" Philips monitor....
The Tinker Boards will be plugged into a number of 1440 x 900 60hz Samsung and LG HDMI monitors; the only screens available where I am. When using these screens I get a 2-3 pixel vertical purple line down the left of the screen and horrific
You should not get flickering or horizontal lines if you're using standard consumer-grade monitors. Industrial monitors have a fixed resolution and refresh rate (I've seen a couple of them in my life), but consumer monitors usually have their built-in scaler to adapt a non-native resolution. The quality of what you get is far worse than native, but indeed you should not get artifacts.
Which version of armbian did you try? I experienced issues trying the variant with the legacy rockchip kern