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You can get the Studio Display to work pretty easily to be fair: you just need to pass through the video card to the motherboard and then run thunderbolt. I ha

by dijit 1y ago

You can get the Studio Display to work pretty easily to be fair: you just need to pass through the video card to the motherboard and then run thunderbolt. I have Linux working with my Studio Display and it just worked out of the box; speakers, webcam and all. (though, the sound quality on the mac is better). The only issues were that when I use a USB-C capable graphics card, it only has displayport out over USB-C, and doesn't talk USB4/Thunderbolt to the rest of the computer.. so those devices don't get exposed to the motherboard at all. If you care- it's a kickass display anyway even if you don't.

whalesalad 1y ago
So interestingly, I have an ASUS Thunderbolt EX4 add-in card, but it doesn't seem to work for me. > you just need to pass through the video card to the motherboard and then run thunderbolt I will have to experiment with this. I was using the little daisy chain cables that allow you to go out from GPU -> immediately IN to Thunderbolt card, then monitor was connected to Thunderbolt card. But I couldn't even get any output at all. Would be curious to hear more about your setup!
- dijit 1y ago
  I have the same card. I "authorised" the Display in the KDE control panel, probably it was this: https://github.com/KDE/plasma-thunderbolt https://github.com/KDE/plasma-thunderbolt I did that before linking the USB-C cable to the gfx card, but I'm not sure if that's required or not? It's the only thing I did. I had multiple displays at the time, now I just have the Studio Display - if it doesn't work automatically without authorization I wonder how you would bootstrap it..
  - whalesalad 1y ago
    What distro/kernel/kde version are you on? Checking now in my KDE control panel, I see that I do have a Thunderbolt section, and the display is listed as "Apple Inc. Studio Display - Disconnected, Trusted" I'll need to play about with this again over the weekend.
    - dijit 1y ago
      I’m using kubuntu, Trusted would make me think you’ve done the tight thing. FWIW, I have Two entries in my Thunderbolt list for this

by dijit 1y ago

whalesalad 1y ago

So interestingly, I have an ASUS Thunderbolt EX4 add-in card, but it doesn't seem to work for me. > you just need to pass through the video card to the motherboard and then run thunderbolt I will have to experiment with this. I was using the little daisy chain cables that allow you to go out from GPU -> immediately IN to Thunderbolt card, then monitor was connected to Thunderbolt card. But I couldn't even get any output at all. Would be curious to hear more about your setup!

dijit 1y ago
I have the same card. I "authorised" the Display in the KDE control panel, probably it was this: https://github.com/KDE/plasma-thunderbolt https://github.com/KDE/plasma-thunderbolt I did that before linking the USB-C cable to the gfx card, but I'm not sure if that's required or not? It's the only thing I did. I had multiple displays at the time, now I just have the Studio Display - if it doesn't work automatically without authorization I wonder how you would bootstrap it..
- whalesalad 1y ago
  What distro/kernel/kde version are you on? Checking now in my KDE control panel, I see that I do have a Thunderbolt section, and the display is listed as "Apple Inc. Studio Display - Disconnected, Trusted" I'll need to play about with this again over the weekend.
  - dijit 1y ago
    I’m using kubuntu, Trusted would make me think you’ve done the tight thing. FWIW, I have Two entries in my Thunderbolt list for this