Six screens from two HD5850s

Felix Blanke felixblanke at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 07:03:47 PST 2011


Hi,

the radeon driver does not support xinerama over multiple gpus yet.

Felix

On 10. January 2011 - 13:43, Richard Palmer wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:43:48 +0000
> From: Richard Palmer <richard.d.palmer at kcl.ac.uk>
> To: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
> Subject: Six screens from two HD5850s
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> 	I'd like to drive six screens (projectors actually) using two HD5850s,
> 	should this be possible with the current driver code ?. I only need
> 	2D at the moment, so should I set them up in crossfire configuration?.
> 	I understand xrandr 1.3 doesn't handle multiple cards, so presumably
> 	I will just need to manually configure xorg.conf as in the good/bad 
> 	old days (Using Xinerama to join the screens together into one
> 	desktop)?.
> 
> 	Any example xorg.confs would be very helpful.
> 
> 	(I'm using the 4 DVI outputs and the two DisplayPort outputs with
> 	active adaptors to convert to HDMI).
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Richard
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