Mac Mini (M1) dual display doesn't work.

I have two acer monitors (they have two ports in the back: DVI and VGA) I have one connected with NO dongle (directly) from VGA to usb-c and one from DVI to HDMI (with dongle/adapter) and it's not working. just one monitor works fine. any help will be great. thanks

Thanks for the quick reply! It happens that I was already using the DVI to HDMI adapter and it wasn’t working. The other one was with the vga to usb-c cable. That’s why I bought another cable of vga to usb-c cable for that monitor and it still doesn’t work. So right now this is the scenario: two monitors with two cables of vga to usb-c ports. Now I understand that it needs to be one for usb-c and the other with HDMI so I bought a cable (vga to HDMI) to see if it works. Do you think it had to be DVI to HDMI? Let me know so I can fix the problem.

No, that is not the adapter. But you are correct, that I should have said Belkin. There is a male Thunderbolt plug coming out of one side. On the other side is a female VGA receptor, and another female receptacle that looks like a Thunderbolt, which I suspect is a power inlet. A VGA to VGA cable connects the adapter to the monitor.

Oops. I was wrong in the earlier message. “I WAS the one” showed the correct unit. It is part number USB32HDDVII. I had tested a number of DisplayPorts - which did not work - and was confusing one of them. Sorry about that.

Then wait for the update, michaenh.

I admit, it does seem rather odd that this has taken so many updates to get right. (Especially with a third-party software “fix” that seems to get it more correct than Apple’s built-in code.)

Thanks for the update.

I will wait for the update but I have always thought that Apple products where hight quality products and user friendly with not so much hight tech knowledge. My cables work fine on other computers exept on Mac Mini.

I have a similar problem that I need help with. I have the M1 mini. I am using an ultrawide LG monitor with HDMI to the HDMi out of the mini and then a 2nd smaller LG regular monitor mounted to the wall at the end of the studio, 13 ft. away. It has a DVI connection that changes to a USB C via an adapter= USB C (thunderbolt 3) to DVI female that connects to the long DVI cable.

Now as I'm writing, I'm thinking that the cable is too long? and if not, why is it not recognized by the mac mini?

thanks for your input.

When is the .2 being released?

This is driving me nuts. A brand new 16 gig Mac Mini and two brand new 4k monitors and nothing works. And when they do after going sleep I get one monitor with all the purples and yellows, and won't work properly again unless I pull out the cable and plug it in again.

I even spent £70 on the Apple USB-C adapter to be done with it!

I just installed 11.2 and... nope. Display issues still present. My display still does not wake after system sleep. It is connected via a TB3 to HDMI adaptor (and it is TB3, not just USB-C as it will do 4k/60). I can do the trick of pushing the mouse into a display sleep hot corner, then waking it up again, but I could do that before. Also works if I unplug/replug, but that's a bit useless and also unchanged. I have another adapter (which is a USB-C multiport thing, completely different make), and that behaves the same way.

That’s what I did in December since I already spent so many hours of my lifetime trying to solve this problem. The Apple Support already told me back then, that it’s unclear when the issue would be resolved and that I could just return the mini. Right now I am happy that I did. But I’m still hoping that they can universally solve the issue. Then I will buy it again for sure.

Sadly no. It seems quite resistant to anything other than a restart of the machine.

Disconnecting and reconnecting the HDMI cable does cause the screen to spot that something has been connected, but the machine resolutely refuses to detect it.

I won't work ... I am about 120$ into different adapters I read about in different user forums without any success and nothing but flicker. I can't tell APPLE how disappointed I am with this Mini M1! I even bought two LG 4k monitors with my Mini order and you would think equipped with 3 ports, one could run two monitors. Also no note/warning during the ordering process that I am buying something that won't work. Also my trader app constantly crashes during the day as it obviously wasn't written with the new Chip in mind. I wish I would have bought some alternative equipment spending less than 50% of my new Apple setup! My first really lousy experience with Apple!!!

Which two LG monitors did you buy? I have two 4K LGs connected to mine, and it *mostly* works (it occasionally forgets about one of them on wake from sleep and needs a restart to fix that; this has become better with 11.2, but it isn't by any means completely fixed). I am not using adapters.

I bought my first Mac Mini in 2014 and it worked like a dream. It handled two monitors about as easily as any piece of hardware which would likely play a part in landing a craft on the moon.

Fast forward to the M1, with regard to two monitors, we're back in the 1950s.

What is going on?

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I agree, I bought this computer almost 4 months ago and ZERO support for dual monitors... That said, if I go back to an Intel model that is basically outdated moving forward. Might still try to return this mini one monitor is a joke!