Jelle de Jong escreveu:

Jelle de Jong wrote:

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Hello everybody,

I recently bought two cub 3d hd3450 ati radeonhd 16x pci-e devices for an multigpu muliseat setup. However currently the radeonhd does not support this. It does not want to setup the second card I tried both the randr 1.2 as the official xorg configuration styles. I posted logs on the radeonhd mailinglist, but multigpu support does not seem to be an development priority. So I was forced to buy nvidea cards and install nvidia kernel crap to get my systems working like I needed.

Now I got two spare devices, that I can either return to the shop or donate to an European developer. The only thing I would like in return is to get personal emails about the status of the multigpu/multicpu support and that it will be working in 6 months. If that is unreasonable we can workout something else. I do need to know what to do in a short time because of guarantee issues on the devices.

Somebody made the suggestion to add some more information, I indeed forgot to post the links to my some other messages on the mailinglist:

http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2008-10/msg00219.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039624.html

I also tried a lot of other configuration, both official and randr 1.2 style configurations, not all are included in the logs or archives.

yeah, the logs is telling our lack of posting secondaries. Cheers, -- Tiago Vignatti C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre www.c3sl.ufpr.br -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

Tiago Vignatti wrote:

Hi Jelle,

Jelle de Jong escreveu:

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I recently bought two cub 3d hd3450 ati radeonhd 16x pci-e devices for an multigpu muliseat setup. However currently the radeonhd does not support this. It does not want to setup the second card I tried both the randr 1.2 as the official xorg configuration styles. I posted logs on the radeonhd mailinglist, but multigpu support does not seem to be an development priority. So I was forced to buy nvidea cards and install nvidia kernel crap to get my systems working like I needed.

yeah, seems that the closed drivers all do ASIC init themselves. So it's a win for them while our server doesn't have a method to post secondaries.

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Now I got two spare devices, that I can either return to the shop or donate to an European developer. The only thing I would like in return is to get personal emails about the status of the multigpu/multicpu support and that it will be working in 6 months. If that is unreasonable we can workout something else. I do need to know what to do in a short time because of guarantee issues on the devices.

Thanks for the offer (though I'm from south america). I cannot accept this right now because I'm already busy with all my hackish volunteering stuffs. Why don't you adventure and try it yourself? It's a good time :)

Thank you,

Thank you Tiago for responding. To the subject of trying to fix the multi GPU issues on the driver by myself. I would probably have the skills to do this, however I always have a lot of trouble getting familiar with the code structures of free software projects, without documentation how the code is constructed and why it is done that way, I have to spent an awful lot of time and energy reading en testing source code to get familiar with the project. This process is always getting to my nerves and personal health by all the "why" and "how" questions popping up in my head. Maybe this will change in the future, lets hope so, but for now I rather leave the development to people already gone through the process of getting to know the code structure. Best regards, Jelle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org