Hello, So I've been suffering under NVIDA's proprietary driver, and before that fglrx... The current system I have is driving me nuts as the cards lose IRQs and so the system display is frozen.... anyway all besides the point. I'm about ready to jump back to ATI video cards (and more importantly the OSS drivers), but wanted to know if the current driver can handle the setup/requirements I've got. I have no problems helping it get there as long as it is workable, and won't take a year to happen... So I have a non SLI/Crossfire setup with two video cards, 3 monitors. 2 x 19" LCDs and 1x22" Wide LCD. I don't care about 3D performance, but I do often watch movies / TV fullscreen on one of the monitors. I currently have one ATI X1650 Pro card which I think is a r5XX card. If I were to get a second one of these, what are my chances that this setup will work without crashing? One large desktop, with sometimes a movie fullscreen on one of them.... -- Nathanael d. Noblet -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Oct 17, 08 10:10:48 -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
So I have a non SLI/Crossfire setup with two video cards, 3 monitors. 2 x 19" LCDs and 1x22" Wide LCD. I don't care about 3D performance, but I do often watch movies / TV fullscreen on one of the monitors. I currently have
Video performance shouldn't be a problem. Even with shadowfb fullscreen video is fast enough.
one ATI X1650 Pro card which I think is a r5XX card. If I were to get a second one of these, what are my chances that this setup will work without crashing? One large desktop, with sometimes a movie fullscreen on one of them....
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.
Matthias
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Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Oct 17, 08 10:10:48 -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
So I have a non SLI/Crossfire setup with two video cards, 3 monitors. 2 x 19" LCDs and 1x22" Wide LCD. I don't care about 3D performance, but I do often watch movies / TV fullscreen on one of the monitors. I currently have
Video performance shouldn't be a problem. Even with shadowfb fullscreen video is fast enough.
Good to know, though this is really a smaller issue.
one ATI X1650 Pro card which I think is a r5XX card. If I were to get a second one of these, what are my chances that this setup will work without crashing? One large desktop, with sometimes a movie fullscreen on one of them....
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 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? Thanks for the reply, -- Nathanael d. Noblet Gnat Solutions, Inc T: 403.875.4613 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
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
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Matthias Hopf
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? -- Nathanael d. Noblet Gnat Solutions, Inc T: 403.875.4613 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Oct 17, 08 10:10:48 -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
So I have a non SLI/Crossfire setup with two video cards, 3 monitors. 2 x 19" LCDs and 1x22" Wide LCD. I don't care about 3D performance, but I do often watch movies / TV fullscreen on one of the monitors. I currently have
Video performance shouldn't be a problem. Even with shadowfb fullscreen video is fast enough.
I can't confirm that. At least not with HD content. Also, tearing makes most movies almost unwatchable. :( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Oct 21, 08 03:45:38 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Matthias Hopf wrote:
Video performance shouldn't be a problem. Even with shadowfb fullscreen video is fast enough. I can't confirm that. At least not with HD content.
On this 1680x1050 laptop fullscreen video is possible. Could be different on AGP cards, though. With shadowfb, all depends on the final output resolution, not on the input resolution. You certainly need a fast CPU for scaling.
Also, tearing makes most movies almost unwatchable. :(
Tearing is unsolvable without DRM, that's true.
CU
Matthias
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