On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Stephen Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
>
> On 11/11/2015 10:34 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 09:50 -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
>>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> I have 3 MST type 4K monitor hooked up to my PC and I've been trying
>>> to
>>> get linux to work properly and have been chopping at the bit for
>>> randr
>>> 1.5 to come out which is supposed to solve the MST tile issue which
>>> 4K
>>> monitors suffer from.
>>>
>>> Is there something I have to do, configure some file in /etc/
>>> somewhere
>>> which would define which tiles make up a monitor? I'm not sure if
>>> there
>>> is something I have to do, or if gnome is supposed to take care of
>>> the
>>> tiling for me, by somehow defining which tiles are part of which
>>> monitor.
>>>
>>> to make matters worse, I have a pair of nvidia cards for which the
>>> nvidia driver does not support xorg 1.18, so I had to downgrade to
>>> xorg
>>> 1.17. In doing so, I still have randr 1.5 installed but I don't know
>>> if
>>> randr 1.5 needs xorg 1.18 or if the two are decoupled enough so that
>>> I
>>> can run xorg 1.17 with the nvidia driver and get the benefits of the
>>> monitor features of randr 1.5.
>>>
>>> Anyone know the answer to all this? I owe you big if you do.
>>
>> A question better asked on X.org mailing-lists, but if you need to use
>> the NVidia drivers, it'd be best to wait until they release new drivers
>> to avoid mix'n'matching. You can double-check the version of XRandR
>> supported by the server with "xrandr --version".
>>
>> With XRandR 1.5, and GNOME 3.18, MST monitors should just work. If they
>> don't, file a bug against mutter, which handles programming the video
>> outputs.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
> When you say, it should "just work", do you mean that the tiling problem I'm
> having now will disapear since gnome desktop will figure out that I only
> have 3 monitors and not 6 tiles. Currently, when I go to configure the
> displays, it tells me I have 6 displays to work with (two per physical
> monitor). If all is right, then the gnome display configuration tool will
> only show me 3 monitors to configure? I hope this is what your telling me.
> :)

Yes thats how it is supposed to work afaik (no hardware here to verify).
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