19 September 2025

Been having a little fun with the monitor setup on the desktop machine and now I have all four 4k monitors hooked up and surround sound working off the LG 'Smart' TV. The only problem is that the setup keeps screwing up when the TV is switched on and off. That and the right hand monitor does not go to screen save when the other to do. Claude is telling me I can switch off the "Automatically configure displays" but there isn't on option displayed in Tumbleweed to disable it? Linking up the audio is also a bit hit and miss, and I still have the irritating mains hum on the stand alone speakers. The hardware is ...

10:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1)
30:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c9)
30:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller

So just where do I go next? At least I have now been able to watch 4k resolution videos with surround sound in the lounge. The TV was not smart enough to play them even when copied to a local disk drive. I just says 'there is no audio with this media', and the same often happens with the HD films as well. Even playing via Plex can be fun at times again with no audio, or continually stalling during playback. I've actually watched the entire Harry Potter series finally without any interruptions!

Now to get back to something I've not played with in years, xrandr, and some of it's newer tools. I had a nice setup across four HD monitors many years ago, so I know it can be done. Just need to stop all the 'smart' stuff from messing with a proper setup!