State of multiple gfx cards support ?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:

>>>What is the status of multiple gfx card support ?
>>>redhat-config-xfree86-0.9.15-1 only detects my radeon 8500LE AGP card, but
>>>not the SiS 6326 PCI card.
>>
>>The config tool now can configure multihead on multihead cards.  
>>I don't know if it is working with multiple separate cards 
>>however.
>
>[snip]
>
>>Short story is, try it and if it works, great!  If not, you're 
>
>It does not work.
>
>Maybe my question was not clear enough. Here an improved version :
>
>Is redhat-config-xfree86 supposed to detect and configure
>multiple gfx cards, or is that outside of its scope ?

I think my above sentence answers that fairly clearly:  "The 
config tool now can configure multihead on multihead cards.
I don't know if it is working with multiple separate cards
however."  Meaning, I know Brent implemented multihead 
configuration for a single card with multiple heads.  I do not 
believe that he implemented multihead configuration with multiple 
video cards yet.  There is a huge difference in configuration 
between a multihead card, and multiple individual cards, or a 
combination of a multihead card plus another card, or multiple 
multihead cards.


>>best off reporting multihead bugs like that to XFree86.org 
>>bugzilla at http://bugs.xfree86.org as each person's individual 
>>multihead configuration tends to be quite unique due to the 
>>complexity of variables involved.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>
>Not much :-E)

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participate in open source processes in this manner, and look 
forward to people's suggestions and contributions.

Take care.

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat