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The screen arrived much sooner than expected. I guess the arrival date of December 8 is a worst case scenario, but ordering parts from China it's harder to take a good guess. It comes with a DSI to HDMI controller board which is about as big as the screen is on its shorter sides, and with the included cables it's good to go. The default orientation is portrait (must be primarily used for phones) and it's no AMOLED but the colors still pop and the pixel density is really good.


You don't want to run a desktop at full resolution with 100% scaling because the text and UI will be too tiny. Booting to a Pop! live OS it automatically scales to 200% and you need to set the landscape orientation manually. Some other distros may not do the scaling automatically.



Here it is displaying Batocera. Again, manual adjustments are required and I need to go into the config files to rotate the display.



This screen is video only, no speakers and no touch panel but I think that is a worthy tradeoff to maintain a slim a profile as possible for the handheld. I have some tiny speakers I can wire up to the headphone jack and for touch, that's TBD. Maybe I will not go with a touch overlay and use a different form of input for controlling a cursor.


Now that I have this screen working I am curious about buying additional ones or better replacements. There are spare screens being sold for Voxelab 3D printers, and one of them looks exactly like the one I have in the display, circuit board, and ribbon cable. But it also has a tempered glass cover to protect it.



So I also bought one of these replacement displays for the glass cover. If it works, I will have a better display that won't scratch easily. If not, no big deal as it was just a purchase of $20.