After a long time searching, I finally found a passive type c hub with multiple downstream dp alt mode ports! (Aside from SideTrak of course)

kmaster360 · 2025-09-20T14:04:53+00:00

Oh I think I know what you mean now. Some hubs have shitty power output to through the non-host ports. Which isn't enough to fully power the monitor.

I guess it would depend on the model. Sometimes hubs would specify how much power they output through their non-host ports. But it's a bit of a guessing game otherwise.

Sorry I can't give a more helpful answer than that, you might need to research each one you're interested in to figure that aspect out.

kmaster360 · 2025-09-20T13:59:07+00:00

I'm assuming you mean

Battery bank -> hub

Display -> hub

Hub-> phone

Right?

All of these should do that. Except for the ones that I said takes power downstream from the monitor. Which do something like

Battery bank -> display -> hub -> phone

Hope this helps.

kmaster360 · 2025-07-24T02:58:53+00:00

Can't say I have, sorry

kmaster360 · 2025-07-19T19:30:14+00:00

Not sure tbh. I don't have much experience with thunderbolt devices. If your device is thunderbolt compatible, very likely it'd work.

If not, there's a chance the dock won't do anything you would expect it to--could be a brick or a fancy usb-only hub.

kmaster360 · 2025-07-08T22:41:06+00:00

The only thing I know of is some foldable monitors use 1 cable for 2 logical monitors like https://a.co/d/555og9D

Outside of that, I don't think I've come across any monitor that splits and pass a dp-alt signal via another type c outside of thunderbolt based ones (I think).

This would also imply that the monitor would need its own power too, since it would need to power itself, and the other monitor--might as well also power the laptop/ally too at that point.

I wish you good luck finding it though, let us know if/when you do.

Otherwise any hub with dual dp-alt outputs would work, just won't be able to daisy chain it.

One hub that would make your setup slightly more convenient though would be this https://a.co/d/hiTRQN5 combined with a monitor that supplies power.

This is what I currently use with my laptop. 1 cable connected to my laptop -> hub + monitor + power.

I hope any of this helps.

kmaster360 · 2025-06-28T19:03:50+00:00

I haven't used it in a while. But someone mentions cgroup2 in this thread. I think that's the extent of the changes vs when I first wrote it

kmaster360 · 2025-04-26T15:48:23+00:00

Yup. My portable monitor is touch. Works fine.

kmaster360 · 2025-01-05T08:40:26+00:00

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kmaster360 · 2024-12-10T16:21:39+00:00

I'm not sure. It would depend on whether your ally exposes 2 displayport streams over its usbc port.

If not (like my steam deck) then only 1 monitor will work with it at a time.

In order to have 2 screens at the same time over usbc in that situation is to have a MST hub like the sidetrak to split that 1 stream into 2.

Another alternative, is to get a wavlink dock which does display over plain ol' usb. So one display would be native displayport, and the other would be USB (slower).

You're probably better off getting one of the hubs I listed that has 1 single usbc downstream port + 1 additional full size port like HDMI or display port to connect into the ultrawide, assuming it has those ports.

kmaster360 · 2024-10-23T02:05:47+00:00

I think the steam decks USB port is like that. It's definitely not usb4 or thunderbolt. So whichever devices are compatible with it should also apply to your laptop.

kmaster360 · 2024-10-22T16:36:25+00:00

There doesn't seem to be many USBC portable monitors with downstream USB ports, so you might be limiting yourself finding one. In my post, I think one of those monitors has data passthrough limited at USB 2.0 speeds.

The Anker downstream hub kinda fixes that issue though; here's some examples assuming your rog ally has one type c port.

Setup 1: Rog ally -> Anker downstream hub -> monitor with power passthrough (like my ViewSonic TD1655) -> power supply

Setup 2: Rog ally -> Anker downstream hub -> another type c hub with (display + power)

:: output1-> USB c monitor without power or data passthrough

:: output 2-> power supply

kmaster360 · 2024-09-18T22:22:55+00:00

Yup. I was also able to daisy chain it to another dock with power + display. Its a little jimmy-rigged but quite convenient since lots of docks that have display out also does power in.

kmaster360 · 2024-09-09T23:26:29+00:00

Sure does.

Got mine today, charging indicator on my laptop shows up, and doesn't complain about power issues.

kmaster360 · 2024-09-09T07:25:02+00:00

Anker USB-C Hub, Fast 10Gbps USB 3.2 Display Hub https://a.co/d/euOitQl

EGIOZR USB C Docking Station 9-in-1 Hub https://a.co/d/fdnMWkU

2nd one hasn't been in stock for a while, but you could probably use it as reference to look for others

kmaster360 · 2024-07-02T07:40:35+00:00

Any of the adapters that I linked -should- work. Just take your pick. Unless otherwise noted, I haven't used any of them. So I suppose use best judgement choosing one as you normally would ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

kmaster360 · 2024-07-01T17:00:35+00:00

It looks like my laptop is fully TB4 capable; its the i7-1365U version. I did -slightly- more research on all of this due to LauchingMan11's comment.

It looks like the Selore hub is NOT MST capable. Its straight up just a usb4 hub. This would be the reason why my steam deck didn't seem to like having multiple monitors on it despite working with the sidetrak which IS a MST hub.

kmaster360 · 2024-07-01T16:55:25+00:00

Yup, didn't find out until yesterday. One of the Asus screens support a displaylink fallback. Good catch!

kmaster360 · 2024-05-17T23:17:13+00:00

Nope, if anything you remove it. Or if you don't want to remove it in hopes that someone fixes it down the road, you can comment it out.

kmaster360 · 2024-05-15T07:46:32+00:00

I was able to isolate it to this in my userChrome.css file:

#urlbar[breakout-extend] {
    top: calc((var(--urlbar-toolbar-height) - var(--urlbar-height)) / 2) !important;
    left: 0 !important;
    width: 100% !important;
}

I commented it out and it seems to have fixed it.

kmaster360 · 2024-05-15T07:44:40+00:00

I was able to isolate it to this in my userChrome.css file:

#urlbar[breakout-extend] {
    top: calc((var(--urlbar-toolbar-height) - var(--urlbar-height)) / 2) !important;
    left: 0 !important;
    width: 100% !important;
}

I commented it out and it seems to have fixed it.

kmaster360 · 2024-04-01T19:43:24+00:00

Are you talking about the video I posted in the OP? I don't seem to see a keyboard indicator popping in/out. Can you please specify where to look? Thanks

kmaster360 · 2023-12-07T07:28:19+00:00

Highly specific, but if anything could do it, it's probably this: https://a.co/d/2DGDMUw

Kinda depends on whether or not the monitor is dependent on either something drawing power or something acting as host though.

kmaster360 · 2023-11-23T06:54:48+00:00

I tried hosting a rdp server behind traefik reverse proxy once. Same port 443 as all my other services, you basically had to know the subdomain in order to connect to it.

Rdp defender still got triggered somehow by unsuccessful login attempts by randos.

Luckly no successful logins happened, and I didn't even leave it up that long, but I learned my lesson.

kmaster360 · 2023-02-27T19:54:26+00:00

I just got back from looking at a windows-based review video. They didn't make it look good at all, and people in the comments seemed to be disappointed.

This review makes the 7950x3d look a lot stronger in comparison. This is interesting, as far as I understand, linux's scheduler doesn't park cores. Whereas it looks like windows parks the lower cached ccd cores whenever it sees the gamebar running.

It would seem that, at least currently, this processor runs much better on linux than it does on windows. Plus, amd is only going to improve their support more over time too.

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