multi monitor/multi card status

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 20:54:12 PDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Csillag Kristof
<csillag.kristof at united-consult.hu> wrote:
> Csillag Kristof wrote:
>> Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Csillag Kristof
>>> <csillag.kristof at united-consult.hu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am running a non-KMS system, and zaphod mode on radeon segfaults me.
>>>> Here is my xorg.conf and X log, again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Latest git of -ati?
>>>
>>>
>> Unfortunately, yes.
>>
> Just for the record:
>
> I gave up on the triple-head configuration, at least for now.
>
> I have spent many hours trying to get things work; I have tried a dozens
> of different configurations and workarounds, randr, xinerama, zaphod,
> xdmx...
> but anywhere I go, a bump in a hardware limitation / hardware bug /
> software limitation / software bug.
>
> I don't have any more time to play with this. (Actually, I did not have
> any free time to begin with...)
>
> Maybe I will check back in a few months, when KMS is more widespread and
> available.
>
>   * * *
>
> For now, I will go with a dual-head, randr-united configuration of two
> 1600x1200 monitors connected via DVI to my FireMV card.
>
> Now if only the occasional 1-second blanking would go away...

Does:
Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH"
in the device section of your config help?

Alex



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