On 12 November 2015 at 00:50, Stephen Adler <[email protected]> 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.
You need X server 1.18 at least. You also need nvidia to make changes to their driver to support tile blobs. I'm not sure if they've done this or not. xrandr --props on their driver when they release 1.18 compatible driver will tell you. Dave. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
