FirePro W600 problem

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> On 14.10.2014 00:39, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Andrey Germakovski
>> <germakovskia at ainfosec.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> FirePro W600 does not work with more than 4 monitors,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After 5th  monitor attached X acting very slow.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or if I call drmModeSetCrtc function 5 times one time for each of the
>>> monitors, it failing out
>>
>>
>> I suspect you are running out of CPU accessible vram depending on your
>> configuration.  There are patches for mesa and the kernel to allow the
>> use of non-CPU accessible vram for display buffers in kernel 3.17 and
>> mesa git so you might try a newer kernel and mesa.
>
>
> The kernel changes for that will only be in 3.18, right?

Oh, right, 3.18.  Sorry.  Please try 3.18.

Alex