Re: Tiling display support

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From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
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Subject	Re: Tiling display support
Date	Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:30:01 +0100
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George Shuklin wrote: 
> On 20/12/2020 00:42, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > George Shuklin wrote:
> > > On 12/18/20 9:55 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > George Shuklin wrote:
> > > > > I continue to choose hardware carefully, and the next issue (I found a lot
> > > > > on it) is support for tiling displays. They uses multiple streams inside
> > > > > DisplayPort to achieve high resolution with high frame rate. It's called MST
> > > > > (vs classic single SST), and I found few people complaining about issues
> > > > > with it. All those complains are relatively old (2+ years).


> > What are you trying to do?
> > 
> I had made a mistake assuming the monitor I'd chosen supported 4k at 240Hz
> (it was announced as 4k and 240Hz). After answers from the maillist I've
> rechecked specs and found it's only 60Hz at full res, and 240Hz is there for
> lower resolutions. So, that thing is dead. There is no 4k @ 240Hz.
> 
> The next issue is notice from Nvidia site about my video cart saying that it
> supports tiling displays only through direct double DP link (two cables with
> no hub of multiplexers). I start to read about tiling support in Linux and
> found tons of pain (which was slightly eased with newer posts about
> --monitor abstraction in xrandr). Instead of absorbing all that pain I've
> asked here if someone is using tiled display under Debian.

This is the last time I'm going to ask.

What actual problem
do you have
that you are trying to solve?

-dsr-

Thread

Tiling display support George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2020-12-18 20:50 +0100
  Re: Tiling display support Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-12-18 21:00 +0100
    Re: Tiling display support deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-19 00:00 +0100
      Re: Tiling display support Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2020-12-19 05:40 +0100
      Re: Tiling display support Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-19 10:00 +0100
        Re: Tiling display support Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2020-12-19 11:40 +0100
    Re: Tiling display support George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2020-12-19 21:30 +0100
      Re: Tiling display support Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-12-19 23:50 +0100
        Re: Tiling display support George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2020-12-22 14:10 +0100
          Re: Tiling display support Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-12-22 15:30 +0100
      Re: Tiling display support Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2020-12-20 08:50 +0100
        Re: Tiling display support Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2020-12-20 10:20 +0100

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