The current dualseat status for radeon?

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 16:24 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 01:26:14PM +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> > I wonder, what is the current status for dualseat setup with radeon cards? Are 
> > there any people out there by now, who have it all working just fine? I could 
> > add, that with nvidia I had dead screens upon resume along with all sorts of 
> > experiments to make it work. Well, but the idea failed just over hibernation 
> > problem some year ago. So is it worth buying two new radeon cards, as nvidia 
> > is a real pain with its blob and I have an impression that with radeon things 
> > would be better (certainly correct me if not)...?
> 
> Why buy two?  New Radeon cards support up to 6 monitors from a single
> card (2 DVI-I, 1 HDMI, 1 DisplayPort).
> 
> (Then again new Radeon cards aren't exactly what you would call
> well-supported under Linux, at least if you only consider free
> drivers...)

Even r600 aren't supported by current distros (except as glorified
framebuffers), so I guess if you want something working now (as in not
in a year or so), try buying some used r500 on ebay instead.

	Xav