-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/09 4:42 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Oct 23, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Brian Lane <[email protected]> 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 - -- - ---[Office 74.1F]--[Outside 55.7F]--[Server 109.1F]--[Coaster 74.1F]--- Software, Linux, Microcontrollers http://www.brianlane.com AIS Parser SDK http://www.aisparser.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Remember Lexington Green! iD8DBQFK4kOTIftj/pcSws0RAqUvAJ9CHFxdpxzxjgdj8cJdn41EkpfzJwCgixxv 0u73V91bV+wX/8s9nSAqYoQ= =iSgX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
