Thank you very much. Maybe that's the answer that I was looking for.
I'll check it out and give feedback. Best regards, Flavio 2013/10/3 garyamort <garyam...@gmail.com>: > > > On Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:43:35 PM UTC-4, Flavio Alves wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I want to be able to manage 2 displays with BBB. Each display will >> show differente information. >> >> For instance: a HDMI output playing video and a LCD display with >> internet browser. Both applications must be executed by BBB. >> >> Is it possible to do that? >> > > In respects to a monitor, the BBB is like any other computer with onboard > video. You need a way to attach the monitor to the PC. The BBB has ONE > built in interface for a monitor - the LCD pins. These pins can be > connected to either the HDMI port OR they can be connected to an LCD > monitor. > > > Like any other computer, in order to get more monitors than that you will > need to install another interface. So you could use a DisplayLink based USB > monitor to get a second monitor if you wanted. > > Unlike a windows computer, Linux has lots of weird little experimental video > drivers made to scratch an itch. > > There are at least 3 different SPI display drivers for linux, one of them > might work. See https://github.com/notro/fbtft for a working driver using > SPI on the Raspberry Pi. > > There are at least 2 different GPIO drivers that bit bang the lcd > controller. One of them is again, https://github.com/notro/fbtft > > There are also a number of "virtual" display drivers that create a virtual > screen[but then you need some way of switching to that frame]. For example, > if you setup VNC Server on your BBB it can be configured to provide a > "virtual" monitor display for remote users. There is probably a way to > configure it so you can have multiple monitors over a single remote system > as I'm sure someone would have played with that - it just might not be very > reliable. > > There are also TWO projects primarily focused on providing "auxilary LCD > display" capabilities: > LCDProc http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ > LCD4Linux http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ > > Their primary focus is in using text LCD displays such as those sold by > CrystalFontz http://www.crystalfontz.com/ but I have run across > hacks/drivers that build off of those projects to use some of the more > advanced LCD's as regular displays. > > It all depends on how much "work" you want to put into it. It you want to > just do "plug and play" go with a USB Display. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Flavio de Castro Alves Filho flavio.al...@gmail.com www.linuxembarcado.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/fraviofii LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/flaviocastroalves -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
