I have the same setup as @ritterkeks in comment #10, and the same
issues.

The P50 dock and it's DisplayPort hub is apparently the problem. The
mini-DP connector on the laptop itself is working much better (I'm also
seeing some OpenGL bugs there on my Lenovo P27 4K monitor (had to enable
triple buffering), but that's apparently something else.

When I connect the monitor to either dock's DP ports the monitor's power led 
goes green like it's receiveng some signal, bit then goes amber into a power 
safe more. In the meantime the builtin monitor does pretty much the same, 
except it also shows some picture for a fraction of a second. This repeats 
sometimes forever (till I time out and pull the monitor's DP cable from the 
dock), or sometimes the xserver gives up and falls back to the builtin screen 
itself.
It happenede that it was sometimes successful and I saw a proper picture on 
both screens, but that was far from stable/usable. After a bit of desperate 
searching I've fould that the dock itself has an upgradable firmware. The 
current latest version is 2.33. After jumping through hoops of installing 
windows (thanks a ton, Lenovo) I've managed to flash the dock. To my surprise, 
the monitor adoption got worse and since then, I can't ever see any picture on 
the 4K monitor via the dock at all (but compared to the previous unusable state 
it's really no big deal). With Windows it works fine, though, so I'm sure the 
firmware upgrade didn't really brick it.

For those who want to try flashing the dock too 3:), you can find the binary 
here: 
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories/B697B003-94C2-418E-914F-23C201052DB1
Note the flashing utility is itself a "brilliant masterpiece" and most of the 
time it does nothing after you run it. At least apparently, but it does produce 
an "update.txt" file in the CWD, which you can examine for a status message. 
Also be sure to connect something to the dock when flashing it, as otherwise 
the utility shows it can't connect and bails out. So much facepalm.

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