Bill wrote: > 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!!!!
It's probably CentOS that won't let you. CentOS is geared more towards servers. If you tried a more desktop-centric distro like Fedora or Ubuntu it'd probably autoconfigure a lot more of this stuff. CentOS was also using incredibly stale software IIRC... It's been about 100 days since I last used CentOS, but that was the impression it left me with. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
