[Nouveau] one desktop on four monitors ?

[Maarten Maathuis]

This may be of interest to some
(http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/commit/?id=9737a812aacbc544b93eeaa031cf1c2e8adbd661),
no idea if it works well, but you can try.

Maarten.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com> wrote:
> That are exact the same informations I got.
>
> I wanted to get 3 screen working like one single screen. No chance with
> nouveau.
>
> What you could do (I hope you guys don't kill me :)):
>
> If your displays got displayport use an AMD card with eyefinity. If
> your displays dont have displayport you need to buy 4x active
> dvi->displyport adapters :/
>
>
> Regards,
> Felix
>
>
> Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:10:32 -0400
> schrieb Younes Manton <younes.m at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:44 PM, DJ Delorie <dj at delorie.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Grrr.  Can the nouveau driver grab two cards at a time and tell the
>> > X server it's one card?
>>
>> No. It would be pretty tricky to do, especially with different chip
>> versions and generations, but even with identical cards it's probably
>> a fair bit of effort that would be better spent on proper X server
>> support. X server internals aren't really my area of interest so I
>> can't tell you much more.
>>
>> > Does nouveau support any cards that can drive four monitors with one
>> > card, with at least one monitor at 2560x1600 ?  Would that get me
>> > what I want?
>> >
>>
>> Current Nvidia cards that support 4 heads are actually dual-GPUs on a
>> single card, so the problem is largely the same. Sorry to be the
>> bearer of bad news.
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