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). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
