VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard

Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pkaye on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:06PM (#20286904)

I've been having a lot of problems with DisplayPort KVMs. I have a 4K monitor and at the time of purchase, I think DisplayPort had better specs. But there are very few KVMs at the 4K resolution. The one I got was literally a switch in the sense that it didn't emulate the video and usb on the disconnected side. There seems to be lots of problems with disconnected DisplayPort devices and drivers. For Linux I found that shutting off the monitor would result in the video not coming back on unless I manually did a "xset dpms" call through ssh. In the end I now got a cheap second monitor and a USB switch for the keyboard/mouse. It just takes up a lot more space.

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pault on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:56PM (#20289089)

I've been using this[0] kvm with a 4k 60hz HDR monitor. The only problem I have with it is the mouse and keyboard emulation doesn't work with my more exotic QMK keyboard mappings and the fancy features on my Logitech mouse, but I think that would be the case on any kvm.

Edit: whoops, missed that you're looking for DP. For what it's worth I'm using HDMI for all of the above with no performance issues.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CWR31PN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_bS...

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pkaye on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @06:44PM (#20290021)

Yes that was my next choice however I decided the $108 could be better spent on a separate monitor. Does that thing have a keyboard switch feature?

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pro_zac on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:09PM (#20286944)

Now that you have a second monitor, might as well use Synergy for keyboard and mouse sharing!

https://symless.com/synergy

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by redblacktree15 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:23PM (#20287720)

That product is walking dead. Use https://github.com/debauchee/barrier which forked the last open source version.

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pro_zac on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:40AM (#20294223)

Thanks! Will definitely give that a look since Synergy rolled back version 2 to beta.

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pkaye on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:13PM (#20286972)

Yes I'm planning to do that. But I think that doesn't work on bootup so the USB switch is still useful (its pretty compact and simple anyway)

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pro_zac on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:39AM (#20294215)

It works from boot on Windows 10. I only have to use a second keyboard for my bitlocker.

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