uConsoles in stereo!

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Just finished building the one on the left, which arrived this week. CM4 on the left, CM5 and HackerGadgets AIO board on the right.

I cloned the card I’ve been using with the CM5 and booted the new uConsole with it. I had a heck of time trying to sort the rotated screen using xrandr and fighting the OS to create files (permissions), until I read Rex’s post about just using raindrop. I spent over 2hrs messing with xrandr and 10 seconds with raindrop. Noobs! :rofl:

The one on the left is supposed to be for Python/PICO-8 dev and learning Linux, but @white-round-square forced me to download RetroPie :face_with_hand_over_mouth::grin: and now I have a feeling it’s going to become an emulation device for the foreseeable future! :sweat_smile:

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xrandr is for x11, raindrop is for wayland

if you switch back to x11 than xrandr will work. Not sure you should though.

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No wonder haha. That does explain why I wasn’t getting anywhere with xrandr then. Raindrop worked first time. Thanks for explaining, it would have bugged me why one worked and the other didn’t otherwise :blush: