Hey friends,
I have 5 monitors in windows I run 4 off my gtx970 and 1 off my intel's IGPU. It works fine in windows. I am trying to find out if I can do the same thing in Linux. I have searched for it for about an hour, with no luck thought I would ask on here before giving up. Currently I can not get the Intel IGPU to show up at all, i have the intel x86 drivers installed and the nvida propriatary drives installed, would the Nouveau drivers allow this?
During your search have you found anyone else with such an issue? If not - might not even be an issue, last I recall reading about it: in bios there should be a setting allowing you to pass pci-e graphics cards output through the intel/mobo connectors and it sounds like you already have that enabled so I'd imagine it would work. Not that I have ever tried. Might need to do something in Xorg.conf to get it up and running perhaps, or are you using wayland(I've no experience with that, though)?
edit: ok from some extra research, while the proprietary nvidia driver on windows support this, on linux it would seem it does not.
edit2: someone on askubuntu claiming it's working with Nouveau as you guessed:
Starting to think I will have to try the nouveau drivers in order to get it to work, but not sure may just drop one of the monitors while in Linux.
I watch jupiter broadcasting and Noah does this with 6 displays I believe under ubuntu LTS 14.04 might be worth asking him. The guy loves linux and is happy to help. He hes been looking at other distros. as well. You can call or email him. I bet he would jump to answer you on his show.
Your best shot is to just try.
It might be a stupid suggestion, but try to change your primary display in the bios/uefi to the integrated graphics to see if the intel gpu is detected.
This would be new to me, I thought once the Proprietary driver was loaded it basically shuts off the IGPU. If this works please post back.
I agree you can call Noah and talk to him about it, I think his show is Live on Sundays.
On a side note Jupiter Broadcasting has gone down in my book. They focus so much on Ubuntu and barely speak about other distros. The Linux Unplugged program should be called 'Ubuntu Unplugged' and I get it they have Wimpy and Popey on so of course they are going to talk about Ubuntu, but they talk as if it's not Ubuntu it's not a thing.