Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (330 mails)

["Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@xxxxxxx>]

Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Oct 20, 08 16:09:18 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> > > Using multiple graphics cards in one system is typically a lottery game
> > > nowadays. If you don't get feedback from someone with a *very* similar
> > > setup (2x r5XX), no one can tell what will happen to you. Especially if
> > > the two cards are not *exactly* the same.
> > Were I to have issues, is the development cycle here pretty tight? Would 
>
> "tight" is probably the understatement of the year.
> If you have issues you should report them to bugzilla. Don't expect
> multicard configuration issues to be resolved easily, though.
>
> > there be resources to help fix, or is an issue like that just not common 
> > enough for anyone to care with all the other needed features?
>
> It's not very common any more to use multiple cards, given that all
> modern cards have two outputs. Multicard setup in the Xserver is also
> pretty fragile, and doesn't get much love from upstream developers (us
> driver developers including).
>
> Matthias


So if this was you, perhaps you would suggest fewer monitors, but maybe 
bigger? So replace these 3 monitors with 2 large monitors driven off a 
single card would be best performance, least hassle?

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Nathanael d. Noblet
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