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I have an ultrawide monitor on such a dock. I have three laptops (work, personal, so's laptop). It's been a never ending quest to figure this mess out. I've

I have an ultrawide monitor on such a dock. I have three laptops (work, personal, so's laptop). It's been a never ending quest to figure this mess out. I've had one cable fail, and one dock fail. I now own three thunderbolt cables, and two working docks, and a dead one. Personal laptop has 3 USB-C ports, only one of which is Thunderbolt. If I forget and use the more conveniently placed USB-C port, the resolution is limited. If I neglect to connect it to power first, it won't reliably connect to the dock. Work laptop will connect, but will always decide I want 1080P, I have to manually adjust the resolution each time. I have noticed if the monitor is set to 120 HZ, the laptop refuses to acknowledge it exists. 240 or 60 HZ works. SO's laptop was quite the quest. It works now, but originally it refused to activate the display. Other ports on the dock worked, the display itself worked with a single DisplayPort -> Thunderbolt cable. The display was listed in the graphics card driver software when connected via the dock, it just refused to allow me to enable it. Things would work without a display driver, or a really old version of the driver. Various driver removal utilities didn't help. I flattened the laptop and installed the latest drivers. Things work for now. I've come away from this mess with a setup that mostly works, but surely doesn't feel stable. And if it stops working, I have basically no clue as to why. Could be a failed part, could be a driver issue, nothing really gives me any feedback as to why it's not working.

fnordpiglet 4y ago
I for one miss the world of VESA and RS232. Those were the days!
- idealmedtech 4y ago
  You mean VGA? Most every monitor these days still has VESA mounting holes.
  - antod 4y ago
    Assuming you weren't trolling, VESA has had many more standards than just the mounting brackets. eg Display Port is one of theirs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Electronics_Standards_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Electronics_Standards_As...
- zzo38computer 4y ago
  I also think that RS232, etc are better. I also think that it is better to have separate cables for audio/video (I would use one way digital video (with encryption or other complications) and balanced analog audio; can a variant RCA connector be made which is capable of balanced signal while also compatible either way with non-balanced too?), and to have separate ports for different purposes and numbers that they are addressable by, which is more secure and also to be able to address them by software in the computer by which port they are connected to. (I think USB is bad in many other ways too, though.)

fnordpiglet 4y ago

I for one miss the world of VESA and RS232. Those were the days!

idealmedtech 4y ago
You mean VGA? Most every monitor these days still has VESA mounting holes.
- antod 4y ago
  Assuming you weren't trolling, VESA has had many more standards than just the mounting brackets. eg Display Port is one of theirs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Electronics_Standards_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Electronics_Standards_As...
zzo38computer 4y ago
I also think that RS232, etc are better. I also think that it is better to have separate cables for audio/video (I would use one way digital video (with encryption or other complications) and balanced analog audio; can a variant RCA connector be made which is capable of balanced signal while also compatible either way with non-balanced too?), and to have separate ports for different purposes and numbers that they are addressable by, which is more secure and also to be able to address them by software in the computer by which port they are connected to. (I think USB is bad in many other ways too, though.)