[SLL] Using more than two displays

[Brian Lane]

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On 10/23/09 4:42 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Brian Lane <bcl at brianlane.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/23/09 2:12 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> Two nvidia cards using the binary nvidia driver is the only
>>> combination I've successfully run quad-head on to this point. Even
>>> that is quirky though, as TwinView is (unsurprisingly) limited to 2
>>> heads, so you have to have two TwinView setups spanned by xinerama...
>>>
>>
>> What about two video cards from different manufacturers? IIRC this  
>> used
>> to be the best way to get dual head, so it should[1] work for more  
>> than
>> 2, right? :)
> 
> Um... Did you miss the part where I said intel + (radeon | nvidia)  
> didn't work? :)
> 
> Granted, the !intel part being a pcie card in a laptop docking station  
> may have thrown a wrench in the works.
> 

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Desktop motherboards may work
better/different.

> Kernel modesetting is also likely complicating things, but Dave Airlie  
> says that should be mostly worked out soon by way of the new vga-arb  
> code, iirc...
> 

Nice!

Brian

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