[Nouveau] nouveau and multiple video cards

[Younes Manton]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to setup one virtual screen with 2 video cards and 3 monitors?
>
>
> My setup looks like this:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS]
> (rev a1)
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
>
>
> 02:00.0 is my primary video card with two monitors connected. 01:00.0 has one monitor
> connected.
>
> xrandr only shows me 2 outputs :/
>
> scooter ~ # xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3760 x 1600, maximum 8192 x 8192
> DVI-I-2 connected 2560x1600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 641mm x
> 400mm
>   2560x1600      59.9*+
>   1280x800       59.9
> DVI-I-3 connected 1200x1600+2560+0 right (normal left inverted right x axis y
> axis) 408mm x 306mm
>   1600x1200      60.0*+
>   1280x1024      85.0     75.0     60.0
>   1280x960       60.0
>   1152x864       75.0
>   1024x768       85.0     75.1     70.1     60.0
>   832x624        74.6
>   800x600        85.1     75.0     60.3
>   640x480        85.0     75.0     60.0
>   720x400        70.1
>
>
> Is there something special I have to do or is it not possible to use such a setup
> with nouveau?
>
>
> Thanks for your help!

Currently not possible with nouveau. This is partially a limitation of
the X server, not just nouveau.