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Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors

From François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors
Date 2018-03-11 15:21 +0100
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Le 11/03/2018 à 14:22, Piergiorgio Sartor a écrit :
> On 2018-03-11 14:12, François Patte wrote:
>> Le 11/03/2018 à 12:42, Piergiorgio Sartor a écrit :
>>> On 2018-03-11 09:41, François Patte wrote:
>>>> Bonjour,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to configure 3 monitors on an nvidia card gtx 1050ti, one
>>>> FHD (1920x1080) or 4k and two other monitors with a standard resolution
>>>> (1280x1024).
>>>>
>>>> The asus version of this cards has 4 ports: 1 hdmi, 1 dp, 2 dvi
>>>
>>> Probably it is possible, but it would be helpful to
>>> have more details, for example which distribution,
>>> version, etc.
>>
>> I run fedora 27
> 
> You're a little conservative... :-)
> 
> Which desktop manager? KDE, Gnome, XFCE, ...?
> Which graphic card driver? Nvidia or "nouveau" or else?

I think that the "official" nvidia driver has more possibikities than
nouveau.

> 
> Anyway, in "Settings->Display" usually it is possible to
> configure a multi-monitor setup.
> At least on my system, which is using F-27 with XFCE.

same for me

> 
> I never tried 3 monitors with different resolution, so
> I'm not sure about this, but that could be a starting point.
> 
> If you've the official Nvidia driver, there should be a
> software, "nvidia-settings", which could also help to
> achieve your goal.

I read somewhere that nvidia driver for linux has some limitation to use
only 2 monitors... fake news?


-- 
François Patte
Université Paris Descartes

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nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> - 2018-03-11 09:41 +0100
  Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-03-11 12:42 +0100
    Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> - 2018-03-11 14:12 +0100
      Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-03-11 14:22 +0100
        Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> - 2018-03-11 15:21 +0100
          Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-03-11 15:27 +0100
            Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> - 2018-03-11 15:50 +0100
              Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-03-11 16:43 +0100
                Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2018-03-11 09:33 -0700
                Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> - 2018-03-11 18:28 +0100
                Re: nvidia gtx 1050ti and 3 monitors HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2018-03-11 20:33 -0700

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