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This sounds like a great idea, did you already try it?

So the VGA adapter works (despite ugly soldering) but i did not manage to use VGA and HDMI simultaneously. After some further research on the topic i think it is necessary to use a custom kernel.

On ubuntu i know you can configure dual display using xrandr, but i have no idea how to do something like that with raspbian.

Please see this very interesting question at stackexchange: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/27048/55885.

I will try to dig a little deeper but to be honest i’m not deep enough into linux and development to fully understand this issue.
If you have any advice or interesting links on how to get dual display to work, please share!

Hey everybody, finally i managed to solder the GERT VGA-adapter!
I hope to find the time to test if it works this week. i will share my experiences here :-)

Hi Thommy,

i bought the Gert VGA 666 board but could not try it out yet (i preferred to start another Raspi-project in the meantime).
But since you are interested i will try to assemble that thing and connect two displays. Maybe i can try it this weekend.

Luke

Hi everybody,

since I have a few 17’’ displays at home I wonder if it is possible to make a dual display magic mirror. After a quick search I found this cheap VGA board. Do you think it is possible to run two instances of magic mirror, one on the VGA port and one on the HDMI port? Or even better, to expand the display to both monitors?

Thanks in advance.
Luke