On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Felix Blanke <felixbla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Felix Blanke <felixbla...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah. >>> >>> I have buyed a third monitor and now need a video card for it :) >>> >>> I want to buy a HD 5770 (flex-edition from sapphire) to use 3 monitors >>> via DVI. >>> Open-source would be mutch nicer to use then the closed source driver :) >> >> Only if you use active displayport->dvi convertors. >> >> Dave. > > That is def. wrong!
No that is correct. There are only 2 pixel plls on the chip, so at most 2 non-DP monitors can be driven at one time. > > The HD 5770 flex edition from sapphire can handle 3 monitors via dvi > with a passiv convertor, e.g. see > http://www.techpowerup.com/128506/Sapphire_Announces_HD_5770_FleX_Edition_Connect_Four_Displays_in_Eyefinity.html > That card is a special oem specific one-off (I suspect they just integrated an active adapter into the board). Alex > > Felix > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati