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Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Setting up a 4 head system
From: acsguy () wtp ! net
Date: 2004-04-28 23:13:22
Message-ID: 200404281713.22556.acsguy () wtp ! net
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Does ati support amd64 platforms?
Have you tried 2 nvidia chipset cards with their own driver made for amd64 from nvidia?
B-)
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 3:38 pm, Nathaniel Bevins wrote:
> I am trying to set up a 4 headed system and I am running into problems.
> The basic situation is I have 3 video cards, each with 2 outputs. I can
> dual head any of the cards, but I cannot get any of the cards to work
> with ech other. I have 1 AGP Geforce FX5700 and 2 PCI ATI 9200SE. I had
> the two ati cards in a four head system on my Redhat 9 machine. The same
> XF86Config file does not work.
>
> The is the basic XF86Config File I had on Redhat:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
> Driver "radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9100"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:09:0"
> Screen 0
> VideoRam 131072
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
> Driver "radeon"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:09:0"
> Screen 1
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 2"
> Driver "radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9100"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:07:0"
> Screen 1
> VideoRam 131072
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 3"
> Driver "radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9100"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:07:0"
> Screen 0
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 16
> I am trying to set up a 4 headed system and I am running into problems.
> The basic situation is I have 3 video cards, each with 2 outputs. I can
> dual head any of the cards, but I cannot get any of the cards to work
> with ech other. I have 1 AGP Geforce FX5700 and 2 PCI ATI 9200SE. I had
> the two ati cards in a four head system on my Redhat 9 machine. The same
> XF86Config file does not work.
>
> The is the basic XF86Config File I had on Redhat:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
> Driver "radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9100"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:09:0"
> Screen 0
> VideoRam 131072
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
> Driver "radeon"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:09:0"
> Screen 1
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 2"
> Driver "radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9100"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:07:0"
> Screen 1
> VideoRam 131072
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 3"
> Driver "radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9100"
> ChipID 0x5157
> BusID "PCI:2:07:0"
> Screen 0
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 16
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> DefaultDepth 16
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> ***********
> ABRIDGED FOR CONCISENESS
> ***********
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Server Layout"
> Screen "Screen0" 0 0
> Screen "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
> Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
> Screen "Screen3" LeftOf "Screen1"
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
>
> I used the BusID of 0x5157 because XFree4.3 does not know the 9200SE
> card. I was not getting hardware acceleration, but this was working
> without any problems.
>
> With my new system, dual opteron 248 running on a MSI K8T Master FAR, I
> am having no luck. I started by using the same XF86Config, but this just
> locks up my box. I have checked the /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but it
> appears that X is just stopping right after the Int10 module is loaded.
> I am getting no errors or warnings. I got the 4 head to work twice, each
> time I brought the system up with two heads running of the same card,
> then I would go to run level 3, add the other card and bring X back up
> with startx or init 5. This would work until I rebooted the box. After a
> reboot, the same sequence resulted in a locked box.
>
> I have upgraded to XFree86 4.4 which recognizes the 9200SE's but I am
> still only able to get one card working at a time. I used the standard
> radeon driver with no ChipID. I have tried the following options to my
> XF86Config file:
>
> NoInt10 true
> ConnectedMonitor CRT,CRT
> NoAccel true
>
> Any help would be create.
>
> Nate
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> DefaultDepth 16
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> ***********
> ABRIDGED FOR CONCISENESS
> ***********
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Server Layout"
> Screen "Screen0" 0 0
> Screen "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
> Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
> Screen "Screen3" LeftOf "Screen1"
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
>
> I used the BusID of 0x5157 because XFree4.3 does not know the 9200SE
> card. I was not getting hardware acceleration, but this was working
> without any problems.
>
> With my new system, dual opteron 248 running on a MSI K8T Master FAR, I
> am having no luck. I started by using the same XF86Config, but this just
> locks up my box. I have checked the /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but it
> appears that X is just stopping right after the Int10 module is loaded.
> I am getting no errors or warnings. I got the 4 head to work twice, each
> time I brought the system up with two heads running of the same card,
> then I would go to run level 3, add the other card and bring X back up
> with startx or init 5. This would work until I rebooted the box. After a
> reboot, the same sequence resulted in a locked box.
>
> I have upgraded to XFree86 4.4 which recognizes the 9200SE's but I am
> still only able to get one card working at a time. I used the standard
> radeon driver with no ChipID. I have tried the following options to my
> XF86Config file:
>
> NoInt10 true
> ConnectedMonitor CRT,CRT
> NoAccel true
>
> Any help would be create.
>
> Nate
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