Help? Xinerama with two cards

David Iannucci kbetzy at punchcutter.ml1.net
Fri Jul 12 22:02:21 PDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013, at 3:56, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > At the very least, I would really like to know the truth about
> > (1) whether X.org has never, historically, been able to drive a dual-
> >     head setup off of two GPUs, and
>
> X has been able to drive multiple GPUs for years via a static
> xorg.conf.

Thanks Alex... this is good to know. If "years" = 2 or 3, then
the information I got could have predated this situation, but if
years means a really long time, then I was clearly misled.

> >(2) whether xrandr 1.4 is really supposed to remedy this.
>
> It's a start, but it's still not there for all configurations.  The
> provider stuff in xserver 1.14 was mainly focused on support for
> hybrid laptops and hot-pluggable USB display adapters.

I see. Helpful!

Dave


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