On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:59:47AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
- TV sets have multiple HDMI inputs (nice for my use cases) but monitors usually only have one DP input
I have a monitor with 2 displayport inputs as well as 2 HDMI. Not that unusual I would think.
I would like a KVM switch so that I can use multiple computers with one set of Keyboard, Video display, and Mouse. Anything more modern than VGA is hopelessly expensive. Second-best is multiple video inputs and a pile of keyboards and mice.
Yes KVMs for digital are certainly more complex and more expensive.
My TV is a stopgap. I will replace it when a new monitor is enough of an improvement. If I didn't have it, the Philips monitor would be a very attractive choice. Again, it is at a price that one could consider buying now and upgrading in a couple of years.
I drive my TV with an MSI GeForce GTX650. I have it hooked up to a DVI port, through a DVI-to-HDMI dongle. I don't remember why it didn't work when hooked to the video card's HDMI port. And it only works on one of the two DVI ports, if I remember correctly. Oh, and I do get sound through HDMI even though that isn't part of the DVI spec.
I think all nvidia cards since the 200 series have supported that audio for HDMI over DVI extention. I find it very handy. I do have to make sure the BIOS is set to do HDMI audio rather than SPDIF or it won't work.
Nouveau won't drive my monitor. I try every few months. So I use the proprietary nvidia driver.
Weird, but I do the same thing for hdmi through DVI, although only at 1920x1200. It may be that you need the binary driver to do the high res stuff. I seem to remember reading about them adding some 4k tiling feature that was required for it to work. -- Len Sorensen