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ACE on a USB-HDMI Adapter

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Re: ACE on a USB-HDMI Adapter

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This is why I have to run 2 GPUs on my work laptop. My 6 monitors are split 3/3 between the iGPU and the dGPU. Except the drivers are all trash so any time a monitor connects or disconnects there's about a 90% chance the displays stop updating and forces either a reboot or a restart of something up the software chain. What would be really nice is to find a way to keep my programs running some restarting the GPU drivers, which Windows can often do.

I'll also note that I haven't had success with just more physical adapters. The drivers complain they can't create a CRTC for them.

Re: ACE on a USB-HDMI Adapter

#8
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Or get monitors that support daisy chaining ( https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-us/article/product-... ). P.S. There seems to be a list of monitors at https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/displayport-mst-lcd-list/

There's a hard limit of 4 displays on Nvidia, even if they're chained via MST - that is how I have a couple of them already. I don't have the PCI-e slots for a second GPU