When I try to start X I get the following message in Xorg.0.log
[ 2138.531] (WW) NVIDIA(0): More than three display devices requested in MetaMode
[ 2138.531] (WW) NVIDIA(0): "DFP-0:1920x1080_120+4240+0,2560x1440+1680+0,DFP-2:1680x1050+0+0,1680x1050+6160+0",
[ 2138.531] (WW) NVIDIA(0): but only three supported when Base Mosaic is enabled on
[ 2138.531] (WW) NVIDIA(0): this configuration; ignoring extra display devices.
Why is support for more then 3 monitors disabled in the newer versions of the drivers?
So I’m guessing nobody is active on these forums. Too bad, because I would really like to know why they nerfed base mosaic to only support a maximum of 3 monitors in the newer drivers.
@kokoko3k
Thanks for your response to sandipt. I don’t check this forum every day anymore.
@sandipt
If a maximum of 3 monitors was set for feature parity between Windows and Linux, then why does Windows still support 4 monitors without a problem? Will this mean that Windows will also be limited to a maximum of 3 monitors in the future?
Does “feature parity” takes places only when the features are going to be removed?
I can’t figure out why nvidia went from 4 to 3 monitors on linux instead of just raising windows to 4.
Anyway, if i’m right, optimus support under linux is not on par with windows.
Are you nvidia going to fix optimus on linux, or “for feature parity” are you going to make the optimus support worse on windows too?
Maybe the same applies to stereo3d.
This doesn’t make any sense to me, and all points to some really bad (for the users and probably for the company image) marketing/managment choice.
Oh, and there is still a question waiting for an answer:
Will it be able in future drivers to support more then 3 monitors again using BaseMosaic?
Which, for “feature parity” means: Are you going to raise the number of monitors to 4 in windows so that “for feature parity” linux users can have it too?
Do a linux user have to post a bug report in the windows forum to have 4 monitors?
please forgive if i appear to be rude; but in my opinion, the linux user community really deserves some more information.
There are longstanding issues not being fixed, incompatibility with newer kernels, no proper optimus support, and now features are going to be removed from your linux driver. All this, while the popularity of linux in graphics-heavy areas (gaming, as am major point) slowly begins to rise, and lots of new interfaces and software related to graphics arise (DRI300, Wayland, Mir, etc). In other words, there is a lot of change going on right now.
So right now, we are very confused, because we are pretty sure that something is going to change on the part of nvidia, but we do not know at all what is going to change, or in which direction things will be going:
Will you abandon your current proprietary driver, in favor of a new, restructured one, possibly using other interfaces? Maybe you will not be maintaining a linux driver at all, and will support nouveau instead? Or is all of this just stupid speculation, and besides removing features from the current linux driver nothing will change?
I would really like to get some information about what your current and future plans for linux are. I am fully aware that supporting linux is harder and not as financially rewarding as supporting Windows, and i do not expect to get a fully satisfying driver as of tomorrow, but i think asking for some more information is not too demanding.
This response does not reflect the truth. I am sitting in windows right now and I’m looking at my fourth monitor running netflix. Now if yall were looking to have feature parity, I would able to do the same in ubuntu right now, and I wouldn’t have be here looking for a way to fix it.
For “Feature Parity” could we please have support in the Linux driver for 3D vision without requiring a Quadro card? Windows driver allows this. Should I really need to buy another GPU just because this has been intentionally disabled in the Linux Driver?
Was this decision was made by an employee from India or from the United States?
I ask because it would be a terrible decision, but I don’t believe it was made as a decision. I think it is the excuse of the off-shore workers, who shouldn’t have done this.
Whatever is going on, this needs to be reversed and must never happen again. People purchased NVidia cards to operate 4 monitors with 3D acceleration. The 295 drivers and earlier supported that. Users tested their cards during the warranty period, and it worked.
Under the U.S. laws (Uniform Commercial Code), the historical support creates a Warranty for a Particular Purpose along with the Warranty of Merchantability and Fitness. Neither of these warranties can be waived. Nvidia could be sued by the class of affected users, and should lose.
That legal situation is as it should be. Companies have no right to withdraw features already sold to users, for any reason. To do so is stealing.
BTW, just read the documentation of the v325 driver (Appendix B. X Config Options) It says that BaseMosaic will support up to 3 monitors and after that it gives an example configuration of a 2x2 setup (Which is 4 monitors)…
I agree that Nvidia should explain more precisely the reason why the feature was removed from Linux driver. Only saying “for parity with Windows” isn’t enough as there are many possible assumptions:
- Quality Assurance : feature to support 4+ screens not fully and really tested on Linux, waiting for more benchmarks and returns
- There have been problems and bug reports for this option in Linux so it is deactivated for the moment until correction.
- It is easier to maintain the code if most of it is identical both in Linux and Windows. But that’s not logical : if it was the case, this feature wouldn’t have been all implemented in Linux first.
- There is a commercial agreement between Nvidia and Microsoft, ensuring that the performances and features of drivers can not be better than those in Windows in any other Operating System.
Such agreement could exist (we already saw worse with MS), but Nvidia would never admit it, and again if it was, why having put this feature in BaseMosaic v295 ?
Is this situation provisional (and will be reintroduced soon on a next version of Linux driver) or definitive ?
So that’s why Nvidia should tell us with more details the justification of remove and not only “This is expected behavior for latest drivers. For feature parity between Windows and Linux we set BaseMosaic to 3 screens on GeForce.”