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Andi B.

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Re: Monitor suggestions
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2024, 04:13:11 am »
I find it strange that there is so much problems with OS/2 video.  I have a dell 30inch 2560x1600 monitor that runs without any problem.  No problem with video cards, I don't have one, it runs from the built in video of the Ryzen 3 processor.
I observe different problems with OS/2 video output nowadays.

1) The BIOS decides which output is to be uses or not. Not used are sometimes switched off here. F.i. when  at boot the HDMI output is attached on my RX550 (?) the Display Port output is switched off. And vice versa. When both are attached I think DP is used and HDMI is switched off. But when something is attached to the internal Intel GPU (DP or HDMI or VGA) in parallel to the outputs of the extra graphic card, things go to complicated to describe very fast.
 
2) Integrated Intel GPU on my system does work but not with 4k. So it's kind of useless on my 3840x2160 Monitor. Needed to put in a extra graphic card and needed a ticket and work from David A. to get this card to work at full resolution.

3) Ryzen 7 integrated GPU does not work in 4k with ArcaOS too. Of course it works with the other OSes I've installed. No clue if David can fix this, need to create a ticket for that.

4) Output (DP or HDMI) is switched off when I switch the KVM to another source. But it is not switched on again when I switch back to ArcaOS. So you don't see any output anymore from your running system until reboot. Of course the other OSes switches back on the output (tested with DP and HDMI on Ryzen 7) when the KVM switches to that input.

There are even more problems with video on our platform I don't wanna go into detail. Some of them are nice to have things which result from the way we are used to work nowadays. But the above are the most annoying.

Eugene Tucker

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Re: Monitor suggestions
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2024, 11:02:43 pm »
I just bought a 24 inch Asus VA24D and it is working fine. It has a display port and a HDMI port it also has a VGA port sorry no DVI port. I got the monitor from Amazon. I did get a Monitor from New Egg it was an LG and it only had HDMI ports. I sent it back as I use Display port. The video chip is in my AMD processor.