E-GPU dock on xps15 2 in 1 on Linux

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I plan on getting an E-GPU dock to use my 1080ti with my dell XPS15 2 in 1 on Linux.

I just have a couple of questions.

  • What is the best E-GPU dock for this, I was thinking Razer core Chroma for the integrated USB hub and 100watt charging function
  • After all is said and done I’ll have 3 graphics drivers on my machine, the intel one, the AMD one, and the Nvidia one, will I run into any issues with that?
  • On Linux will I need to reboot to use the EGPU or will modprobing the nvidia driver and reloading xorg work?

Any help/experiences with EGPU on Linux would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.

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Multiple drivers like that aren’t an issue on Linux, Windows is the only OS that seems to have those sorts of issues.

uhh, good question. I typically reboot. I’ve encountered issues with not rebooting.

The Razer core is a solid dock. I don’t have first-hand experience with it, but a friend has one and he said it gets the job done.

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Thanks for the quick reply! Rebooting sounds like the way to go. Glad to hear multiple drivers won’t be an issue, I didn’t think they would be but I wanted to make sure before I dropped any money on this set up. Sounds like I shouldn’t have many problems.

I did have another question I just thought of though, my xps15’s monitor is 4k, but my other ones are just HD, so I’ll need to scale the displays per screen. I prefer KDE but have been trying out gnome for the better wayland support, because I heard wayland is better at scaling like that. Is there an easy way to scale X11 per monitor? KDE wayland support is… not there yet, but man am I sitting on pins and needles because what is there is fantastic so far!

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I don’t have an answer to this one, all my displays are of a close enough dpi that I leave the scaling settings alone.

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