On Sep 22, 12:47 pm, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.co...
>
> >> 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.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
I don't think so. The errors I'm hitting seem to be driver or Xserver
related. The biggest problem I have is that one card alone works
perfectly with the driver from ATI but I can't get two cards to work
and the generic Radeon driver, radeon_tp will not allow me to setup a
dual head. I wish I could find more docs on the generic driver but I
can't seem to find much about it.
The reason I want to use CentOS is that my company will be moving to a
new server that will be using a version of RedHat so I wanted a
similar system to work on to get more used to Linux vs the FreeBSD I'm
used to.
Bill
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