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What, specifically, does this imply for the number of external displays one can attach to a raspberry pi 4 ? Naively, you might think that with 2x USB-C ports,
by rsync 6y ago
What, specifically, does this imply for the number of external displays one can attach to a raspberry pi 4 ?
Naively, you might think that with 2x USB-C ports, you could attach two of these:
Cable Matters 201055 – 2x DisplayPort, power, ethernet, 2x USB2
... and also attach something to each of the onboard HDMI port and have a total of six monitors.
However, I don't think that's the case because of something-something-video lanes/memory/bios something-something ...
Does anyone have a finer grained understanding ?
EDIT: I am reminded that this post[1] discusses an alternate route using the CM4 and the pcie port on the breakout board ... and failing to succeed in using a pci graphics card. USB3 monitors seem a more promising avenue but, again, I think there is some memory/BAR limitation ...
[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/external-gpus-and-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4 https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/external-gpus-and-ras...
- nfriedly 6y agoFor a Raspberry Pi 4B, the USB-C port does not support displays, only power and USB 2.0 data. The other pins are not connected to anything. Without extra hardware, you can only connect displays to the two microHDMI ports.
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