Help? Xinerama with two cards

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 12:03:50 PDT 2013


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:02 AM, David Iannucci
<kbetzy at punchcutter.ml1.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013, at 3:56, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> > At the very least, I would really like to know the truth about
>> > (1) whether X.org has never, historically, been able to drive a dual-
>> >     head setup off of two GPUs, and
>>
>> X has been able to drive multiple GPUs for years via a static
>> xorg.conf.
>
> Thanks Alex... this is good to know. If "years" = 2 or 3, then
> the information I got could have predated this situation, but if
> years means a really long time, then I was clearly misled.

10+ years.

Alex

>
>> >(2) whether xrandr 1.4 is really supposed to remedy this.
>>
>> It's a start, but it's still not there for all configurations.  The
>> provider stuff in xserver 1.14 was mainly focused on support for
>> hybrid laptops and hot-pluggable USB display adapters.
>
> I see. Helpful!
>
> Dave
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