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.
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
Dead already, sadly.
Archive.org link is.. not quite working?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260404214455/https://blazeligh...
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.
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
HN second-chance bump just had to happen when I had a power outage... Back up now :)
> blazelight.dev/blog/ms2160.mdx wrote up how I got arbitrary code execution on a USB-HDMI adapter, and beat the OEM driver
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1: https://twitter.com/theblazehen/status/2040688835323982304
GNU started with frustration over a cursed printer and a cursed proprietary driver for it.
2026, we are still dealing with this kinda thing.