On 10/6/24 18:03, Dale wrote:
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Interesting. I thought the four port card in the NAS box was newer, at
least a little bit anyway. I may dig around for a card with display
port outputs and see what I can find. Hopefully something not to old.
I don't need much. Biggest thing, drivers that work. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
Be sure to read up on displayports first - multiple monitors are daisy
chained. Some monitors have two displayports to allow for daisychaining:
PC->DP1 on monitor1, Monitor1 DP2-> Monitor2 DP1. - Not sure what you
have but my monitors only have a single DP which is often the case for
early generations (if they have them at all) If you don't have such a
monitor, you can buy a powered splitter with 2 or 3 ports. This what I
use: DP to splitter to two monitors with the on board HDMI port to the
third. X works ok but I do have a few glitches at times with one
monitor going black until I restart X and an occasional video pipeline
error requiring a restart of the system to fix. This with an intel
video on board system.
And not to forget, monitors are power hungry - my system is currently
using ~130w of power to type this email - the PC (low power celeron)
accounts for less than 15w of that :)
BillK
