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Orange Pi Lite w/ Old VGA screen

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Published in 2017-12-12 19:16:37 | Show all floors |Read mode
Hi!

Complete amateur here. I have a little problem getting a picture from OPi Lite.

I'm using RetrOrangePi 4.1 and I need to see it running on a LCD screen I borrowed from a laptop equipped with a Samsung-LTN150XB-L03 controller board that has one VGA port and a 1024x768 resolution cap, so I have to add a HDMI->VGA adapter in-between.

When I connect the OPi to a HDMI TV it works properly, and it works with a CRT TV when I connect them with a HDMI->RCA adapter (when the adapter is powered, otherwise I get a pink screen).

When I use any HDMI->VGA converter though, the only thing I get is an screen like this:



It's interesting because both HDMI->VGA converters (one of them powered) I use work just fine with an older Android stick and my RikoMagic MK36s Win10 miniPC.

At this point I need to know why connecting the OPi to a VGA port via adapters is causing an error on boot, and of course whatever the solution to this problem is.

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Published in 2017-12-26 14:29:22 | Show all floors
Is there any possible that OPI Lite does not support the resolution of your screen?

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Published in 2017-12-26 14:53:21 | Show all floors
RetrOrangePi is based on Armbian and they probably supply h3disp utility, which can adjust screen size to other resolutions.
https://github.com/armbian/build ... sp/h3disp#L202-L205

Command is:

  1. h3disp -m 32
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