On Sep 22, 1:37 pm, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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..
> >>> 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 -
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> > 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- Hide quoted
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I'm downloading Fedora as we speak. I'll give it a shot.
I just got done with support for ATI and I must say I'll NEVER buy
another ATI based card again! I emailed them and asked them about
the error message I'm getting relating to the second card and
multiview and I was basically told to F**K off and ask the Linux
community if it relates to a Linux OS. No one seems to know what this
multiview error is:
'fglrx(2): Multiview is not supported on the first adapter; this
screen will now shutdown.'
So I figured that the company that made the chipset and driver should
know but it seems like they could care less so from now on it's
anything BUT ATI !!!!!
Bill
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