Okay so it may seem like I'm double posting, but I'm not. Now that that's out of the way let me ask you a question. I have two ATI cards an x1900xt and a 9250 and I'd really like to be able to get all three of my monitors working in linux... like badly. I was wondering if this is even possible, and if it is, if someone could point me in the right direction. To be more specific what kind of drivers (hypothetically) should I use for such a task etc etc etc. I'm really confused about my x1900xt. It seems linux really hates this card if someone could help me out with this as well I'd appreciate it. Thank you for anyone with any kind of information.

~Darkstar

you can add a huge number of screens, it's just down to writing a suitable xorg.conf file to assemble displays from multiple devices. no special drivers required.

btw, please use useful and informative thread titles in future.

Linux doesn't hate your card. It's just that the ati drivers are bad, and that's only the ati's fault, not the linux one.



It depends, to get multiple monitors working you need to use either xinerama, or a multihead setup. Multihead should be no problem, but if you are going to use xinerama with ati then you should be aware that ati is particularly buggy when it comes to xinerama (not that without it you are not going to have problems anyway).

That's my experience with a lot of different ati cards on different boxes.

So, I recommend not to use xinerama, and setting up a regular triple head setup without xinerama.

Ps. All i've stated here is related to the fglrx driver.