more than two monitors not working on nouveau, but works on proprietary

[patrick korsnick]

Hi all,

Now that I'm loving f25beta so much and refuse to go back to f24 I'm forced
to address a problem I've had for some time. Up through f24 I've had to
install the nvidia proprietary driver to be able to use more than 2
monitors on my GTX960 (if I connected more than 2 it locked up the machine).

Now with the switch to Wayland in f25 the closed source driver doesn't seem
to be an option, so I need to see if it's possible to get it working under
nouveau (or maybe buy an ATI card).

So does anyone know how to make 3 or more monitors work under nouveau?

Thanks for any advice

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 16:58 -0600, patrick korsnick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that I'm loving f25beta so much and refuse to go back to f24 I'm forced
> to address a problem I've had for some time. Up through f24 I've had to
> install the nvidia proprietary driver to be able to use more than 2
> monitors on my GTX960 (if I connected more than 2 it locked up the machine).
>
> Now with the switch to Wayland in f25 the closed source driver doesn't seem
> to be an option, so I need to see if it's possible to get it working under
> nouveau (or maybe buy an ATI card).
>
> So does anyone know how to make 3 or more monitors work under nouveau?

F25 is not released yet. This is a question for the Fedora Test list, not here.

poc

[Doug]

On 10/17/2016 07:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 16:58 -0600, patrick korsnick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Now that I'm loving f25beta so much and refuse to go back to f24 I'm forced
> > to address a problem I've had for some time. Up through f24 I've had to
> > install the nvidia proprietary driver to be able to use more than 2
> > monitors on my GTX960 (if I connected more than 2 it locked up the machine).
> >
> > Now with the switch to Wayland in f25 the closed source driver doesn't seem
> > to be an option, so I need to see if it's possible to get it working under
> > nouveau (or maybe buy an ATI card).
> >
> > So does anyone know how to make 3 or more monitors work under nouveau?
>
> F25 is not released yet. This is a question for the Fedora Test list, not here.
>
> poc
> _______________________________________________

If it works with the NVidia driver, why not use it? Whom are you hurting 
by doing so?
(And the last I heard, you would be hurting yourself, _even if you did 
not have to_ since
the NVidia driver provides other features that nouveau doesn't.)

--doug