@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months ago"I hooked up a second monitor and neither are working!"message-square20fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-square"I hooked up a second monitor and neither are working!"@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
I go to investigate, and they had managed to plug the HDMI cable of one monitor into the other monitor.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•2 months agoTo be generous, maybe they’re familiar with DisplayPort daisy-chaining, which is a thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•2 months agoYou just blew my mind. I didn’t know it’s even possible.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoDisplayport is pretty versatile. You can get an active DP hub and split DP into more independent screens if your GPU will support the total resolution.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-22 months agoInteresting. Never heard of that. It’d just be a guess, but I’m doubting this was a person familiar with that. Just a humorous oopsy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoYou are a saint with that kind of compassionate thinking - well done!
To be generous, maybe they’re familiar with DisplayPort daisy-chaining, which is a thing.
You just blew my mind. I didn’t know it’s even possible.
Displayport is pretty versatile. You can get an active DP hub and split DP into more independent screens if your GPU will support the total resolution.
And you can use it over TB/USB-C.
Interesting. Never heard of that. It’d just be a guess, but I’m doubting this was a person familiar with that. Just a humorous oopsy.
You are a saint with that kind of compassionate thinking - well done!
TIL. Nice