There are a lot of the new wider monitors coming out. I have had one for several months. None of my Armbian boards support it. Some won't display at all, some default to a single lower resolution, and several will only allow to set to 1920x1080.

 

Doesn't HDMI interrogate to discover resolutions and then match capabilities? I have no clue how HDMI actually works but it would be great if Armbian looked proportional on those monitors ;]

 

Thanks

 

I don't think this is a limitation from Armbian but from the upstream drivers...

Upstream drivers usually never cover extraordinary resolutions  while for us, this is another out of range task. More like a project which can easily represents weeks - months of work. I think we only did some corrections in a few occasions, latest was this one and show a bit how it usually goes: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/1887 Each hw platform has its own way, numbers are different, testing has to be done, ...

I didn't realize it was so involved. My understanding of 'upstream' is seriously lacking. I have to admit, I pretty much only use Armbian so I can't compare to board manufacturer os's ... 

 

For as little as I use x86 these days, still spoils me ;]

 

Thanks for poking back

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