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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nope.

As was already mentioned, the only possibility for such devices which
lack MHL support, is to use something like Miracast or other wireless
video streaming, when support for it lands in Ubuntu.

You can't add MHL to a device which doesn't have hardware support for
it, in the same way you can't add Bluetooth LE support to a device whith
doesn't have the hardware for it.


On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 21:49 -0500, Eric Holmi wrote:
> Ok. It just seems like there is some fancy way to do it. Maybe share
> GPU ram with CPU or something?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Rodney Dawes
> <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         The phone images use Mir, Not Xorg.
>         
>         No, you can't bypass the lack of hardware by CPU magic. The
>         pins on the
>         chip are not wired up to support MHL. There is no way to
>         enable MHL
>         through software when there is no hardware to support it.
>         
>         
>         On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 21:35 -0500, Eric Holmi wrote:
>         > Ok. Now Im confused. How can there be graphics without a
>         graphics or x
>         > server? Besides, couldnt you use a CPU thread to bypass any
>         hardware
>         > limitations by routing the GPU's output through it, because
>         the CPU
>         > has access to everything?
>         >
>         >
>         > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Rodney Dawes
>         > <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         >         There is no X server on the phone.
>         >
>         >         However, this issue is that the hardware is not
>         enabled at the
>         >         hardware
>         >         level. There is no working around that in software.
>         >
>         >
>         >         On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 19:45 -0500, Eric Holmi wrote:
>         >         > Is there a potential work around to make the
>         device send X
>         >         server
>         >         > output to both the micro USB and display
>         simultaneously by
>         >         modifying
>         >         > the X server config files, or by modding the
>         display
>         >         configuration
>         >         > files?
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Nathan Haines
>         >         <nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx>
>         >         > wrote:
>         >         >         On 01/12/2016 04:21 PM, Wayne Ward wrote:
>         >         >                 Can anyone tell me which cable /
>         adapter id
>         >         need to
>         >         >                 buy to get my Bq 4.5
>         >         >                 connect to hdmi monitor please
>         Link would
>         >         nice..
>         >         >                 Wayne
>         >         >
>         >         >         The Ubuntu BQ and Meizu phones cannot
>         connect to
>         >         external
>         >         >         displays.
>         >         >
>         >         >         --
>         >         >         Nathan Haines
>         >         >         Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         
>         
> 
>

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