Bill wrote: > > > 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.. >>> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGÂ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>> 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.
If it's a server it probably won't even have a monitor attached, so knowing how to configure Xorg on (IMHO, seriously broken) CentOS won't help you much. Linux and FreeBSD are extremely similar except for the package manager (I've given PC-BSD a short spin before, it was interesting, but so similar to Linux that I ended up getting bored. Where was the difference?) If you still can't get CentOS working, try Fedora. It's Red-Hat based, and in my experience it's much more desktop-friendly. IIRC, it was the second distro in the pretty 3d desktop effects race (after SuSE), which is a reasonably good metric of how good their desktop support is --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
