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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by WesolyKubeczek on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:39PM (#24890708)
Cannot say Wayland works smoothly on my triple-monitor setup. One of the monitors sometimes stops working randomly, and wakes up to display Plymouth screen when I reboot the thing.

Dell Precision 7520 with an AMD GPU. The degree of flakiness is different depending on whether you're on Plasma or GNOME, but it's there nonetheless.

Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by horsawlarway on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:25PM (#24891080)
I mean, my data point of one isn't all that helpful if you're having issues, but triple monitors do indeed work on my end.

I switch between a station that has a 4k display next to a standard 1920x1080 display as well as my laptop display (3200x1800) and my home setup with the laptop and 2 4k displays.

I had an issue on the 4k displays when I attempted to run two displays and a usb hub on a single thunderbolt line, but that wasn't Wayland, that was me being dumb: The thunderbolt protocol only support 40Gb/s and each monitor uses 20Gb/s and the hub eats another 10Gb/s. If the hub got detected last, it dropped to usb 2, if one of the monitors came online last, it would drop to 30hz refresh rate. Frankly - I was a little floored when I realized that I was the one being dumb and the system was mostly still just making things work. Just for shits and giggles I booted up an x-session after to see what it does. The answer is lots of black screen.

Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by ludocode on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:03PM (#24890903)
I'm guessing that's an AMD GPU thing and not a Wayland thing. I run a triple-monitor setup with an AMD GPU on X.org and I have a similar problem: every once in a while when I boot my PC one of the monitors just doesn't come to life. Restarting X usually fixes it.
Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by WesolyKubeczek on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:29PM (#24891115)
But the bootscreens work! X11 withmodesetting ddx works!

Moreover: when I pass through the dGPU to a virtualized macOS, all monitors I plug in just work!

Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by phkahler on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:42PM (#24891628)
>> Cannot say Wayland works smoothly on my triple-monitor setup.

How does X work on that setup?

Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by WesolyKubeczek on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:31AM (#24893329)
Very smoothly.
Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by Spivak on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:21AM (#24897112)
Well until you need mixed scaling and then it completely falls down.
Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by WesolyKubeczek on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:12AM (#24905344)
That’s why I have triple-4k monitor setup. Also good for the eyes.

Mixed scaling? Is that that thing when you open chrome and it’s blurry on your hidpi monitor?

Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by javier2 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:17PM (#24891872)
To be fair, triple monitors barely work on my macbook