BTW with wayland coming what changes in the whole multi display situation. Will it make it easier or it doesn't matter at all.
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Originally posted by 89c51 View PostBTW with wayland coming what changes in the whole multi display situation. Will it make it easier or it doesn't matter at all.
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Correct me if I am wrong (and I probably am) but I thought that nvidia does not support more then 3 monitors and they actually withdrew 4 monitor support in Linux a month ago? The article was here on phoronix..
How did you connect those monitors - One display port, two via DVI and one via HDMI?
I have 4 monitors but I can actually use 3 of them using Intel's video in my Haswell i7 CPU.
It works great but I am really up to shell some $$$ for an NVIDIA card but I gave up when I read that NVIDIA does not support 4 monitors..
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Originally posted by NSLW View PostLol wide gap between monitors; that looks very ugly; is unpractical.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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AMD GPUs only have two PLLs which means we can only support two independent non-DP clocks. If you want to use more than two monitors, the additional monitors have to be DP. If you try again with 2 DVI/HDMI and 2 DP monitors it should work. Catalyst enforces this requirement. On radeon we allow PLL sharing where it's possible (e.g., multiple panels with the same clock) which is why it works there. That has it's own limitations however. E.g., if you try and change to a configuration that requires more than two PLLs, the modeset will fail.
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostAMD GPUs only have two PLLs which means we can only support two independent non-DP clocks. If you want to use more than two monitors, the additional monitors have to be DP. If you try again with 2 DVI/HDMI and 2 DP monitors it should work. Catalyst enforces this requirement. On radeon we allow PLL sharing where it's possible (e.g., multiple panels with the same clock) which is why it works there. That has it's own limitations however. E.g., if you try and change to a configuration that requires more than two PLLs, the modeset will fail.
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Originally posted by zoomblab View PostGreat article Michael.
On the subject, have you seen anyone using 4 monitors? I think it is not practical, you have to have a central monitor while the rest to be auxiliary.
It all depends on your layout. I have all four of mine hooked up to a development system to a Titan. For the kind of work that I'm doing the even amount of monitors are fine.
(One other thing about the article, while Tyke stands are cheap in Amazon.com, they are just as expensive as the Ergotrons outside the US).
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