Xorg and multiple graphics cards

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/15/09, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>  After upgrading to 7.4, I got an ABI mismatch when using the old 6.6
>  ATI driver to control the two Radeon cards I have in my machines,
>  which are combined with Xinerama into a triple-monitor setup.
>  I could also not compile the 6.6 tip against the new 7.4 code [0].
>
>  I was informed that X still does not support XRandR across multiple
>  cards yet. Thus, I have two choices:
>
>  1. roll back and stay with X 7.3 + ATI 6.6
>  2. forget triple-head and return to dual-head
>
>  (2) is clearly not an option, so I am doing (1), but I am also
>  reminded of this thread on the issue:

zaphod style multi-head should still work with the radeon driver.

Alex