5510 - multimonitor support on 14.04?

Yes, I have. It doesn't work great, sometimes, when it goes to sleep, one of the screens goes off and never turns back on. I've had to reboot the laptop a couple of times to send the signal to both screens when it lost it. And I have had a couple of freezes, but I can't know for sure if that is correlated to the screens or maybe is a BIOS problem or something different.

Overall, I'd say it works fine and I use it daily. 2 27'' screens, one 1080p the other 1440p; the laptop screen on too (I found out that it is more stable this way as I used to turn it off), a wireless mouse and a wired keyboard.

The 1440p screen goes to the HDMI and the 1080p goes to a VGA-to-USB-C adapter that I bought on Amazon.

Good luck!

Thanks!

Have you updated the kernel?

Do you see high CPU usage when working with both monitors?

Hi,

Has anyone else had success with multi monitor support?

What's your HW?

Did you update the kernel?

Thanks!

Hi,

How often do you see the freezes?

Were you able to try a USB-C to HDMI / DVI connector?

Thanks!

I've been seeing them way less lately. Maybe once or twice a week? But actually, I don't think I've seen one at least in a week. And like I said, they are totally random and cannot establish if there is any correlation between the freeze and the use of external monitors. And I use the laptop all day long and every day. It goes to suspend a couple of times a day and that does not gives me any problem (all while connected to the monitors).

No, I haven't tried a USB-C to HDMI. I Bough a USB-C to VGA and works flawlessly. Even better than the direct HDMI one I'm using for the 1440p monitor. Actually, is this second monitor the one that gives me more trouble (ACER 1440p connected through HDMI) because sometimes, when I resume from suspend or boot while is connected, it doesn't display anything. The other monitor (LG 1080p connected through USB-C ->VGA) has never given me any problems.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Santiago.