On Sep 20, 2:39 am, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Bill wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to get a system running Centos5 to recognize two ATI > > HD2600XT RadeonDual headcards and three monitors and am pulling my > > hair out. > > Geez, and I thought trying to get my two monitors to work was > difficult... I eventually got fed up and gave up. Better luck to you > though. The thing that bit me in the end was trying to use fullscreen > apps. > > > I'm using the latest ATI drivers and I can get each card to work alone > > but when I try to get both at the same time I get an error in the > > Xorg. > > 0.log that indicates: > > > (EE) fglrx(2): Multiview is not supported on the first adapter; this > > screen will now shutdown. > > (EE) fglrx(2): PreInit failed > > > Anyone know what this means??? > > I haven't a clue, really. The Ubuntu docs are really well maintained, > and they document the same software as your CentOS distro. Perhaps > these Ubuntu pages will help: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTohttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI > > Just be wary with Xinerama, since it precludes desktop composition. > Which is a pity, since it works better than TwinView, too. > > Registered Linux Addict #431495http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman| John > 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/|http://lordsauron.wordpress.com/
I really want to get this working but NOTHING I do works. I even when out and bought another PCIE card by a different Manufacture in the hope that the ATI driver would play well with another driver. I got a Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS to replace one of the dual head cards, since I only need 3 monitors not 4. Still no go. If I run the ATI driver I can't get both cards to work. If I run the open source Radeon driver, radeon_tp, I can get both cards working but only a mirror of the first screen on the second screen on the dual head card. I was looking around and realized that since I do not really need 3D acceleration at all the radeon_tp drivers should work so right now I pulled out all the cards but one dual head and am trying to get a non-mirrored setup going with one dual head card but no matter what I do all I get is the mirroring or the Xserver wont start at all. This REALLY sucks. I can get a dual head two monitor setup working just the way it should with the driver from ATI but when I add another card into the mix I can't get the new card to work no matter what. I even tried to play with the Randr program, I saw somewhere that you could start up an Xserver with a single screen and then using xrandr attach another screen but all of the samples I saw used xrandr 1.2 and Centos uses xrandr 1.1 and it seems that the commands used in 1.2 aren't in 1.1, or I'm seriously screwing things up which is quite possible.. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REALLY want to swith my desktop here at work to Linux but it appears that Linux wont let me!!!! Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
