Has anyone managed to connect a Gemini PDA on SailfishOS to an hdmi output ?
Any ideas on how to it ? Is that supported in the OS ?
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The compositor doesn’t support screen out. I seem to recall that in a meeting it was mentioned that someone -outside jolla- was working on it.
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Thanks for the answer. It’s sad then
opened 09:06PM - 13 Aug 20 UTC
I know there is no builtin support for external displays in Sailfish OS, but the… hardware is there on the Pro¹, and [it has already been done in the past on another port]( https://github.com/elros34/qt5-qpa-hwcomposer-plugin/commit/6a6022bbc15b6d2e346930573dfe4ee553883140) ([probably based on this older PR](https://github.com/mer-hybris/qt5-qpa-hwcomposer-plugin/pull/16)), so this seems technically feasible.
With its 6GB of RAM and its rather fast SOC (even though we won't stop reading it's too old in reviews), the Pro¹ is already fast and responsive enough to be used as a pocket computer running a desktop distribution thanks to @elros34's `sailfish_linux_chroot` (and Preflex) and/or @r3vn's `harbour-containers`, and tiling WMs work insanely well with the keyboard so it really is much more than a gadget.
With support for an external display, it could even be used as a NUC when a monitor and keyboard are plugged to it with a usb-c hub; let alone the portable media-player use for videos (as was done with the N900 before).
How hard would it be to implement the above work on `hwcomposer2` to support external display into the Pro¹ port, and would there be any drawbacks making it a bad idea?
There are some patches in the comments. No idea if those still work or if they will be ever accepted by jolla.
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meaning probably won’t happen soon or maybe never.