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The first issue should be possible to deal with at OS level. Even if all the monitors send same serial number, OS should know in which port they are plugged in.
by Karliss 4y ago
The first issue should be possible to deal with at OS level. Even if all the monitors send same serial number, OS should know in which port they are plugged in. Preferably things shouldn't swap if you swapped ports for your two monitors with properly unique serial numbers. But if the serial numbers are identical, ports seem like reasonable fallback since most people with multimonitor setups don't randomly unplug and plug them too often (except laptops).
- dt2m 4y agoThought the same thing. This must not be an issue on Windows either?
- fragmede 4y agoYou're assuming the ports enumerate the same when the system wakes back up.
- IshKebab 4y agoNo he isn't. He's assuming the wires are plugged into the same physical ports and the USB/Thunderbolt system makes that information available (it does).
- fragmede 4y agoNo, I’m saying that the same physical ports, on broken hardware, won’t always enumerate to the same physical port. Say port 0 is the one on the left and port 1 is on the right. You’d expect that the computer is able to reliably get that right and be consistent. I’m saying that in the case of broken hardware / bad firmware that it’s not, and port 0 will come up as the right port, with port 1 on the left, with no working, proper way to identify between the two.