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Old 01-01-2011, 12:10 PM   #1
JonathanWilson
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How do I set up multiple graphic cards?

This is my lspci output.

Code:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series
Initially I had just teh HD 3600 in the PC, using the "AMDccle" drivers and configuration running two monitors.

I then added an old RV280 PCI card to allow a third monitor.

When the PC powers on the bios output is on the RV280, once linux starts the RV280 monitor goes to the ubuntu desktop colour, the two monitors on the HD3600 get a signal (power up) and display the logon screen.

When I log on the two HD3600 screens become my desktop.

If I ctrl alt f1 etc. the terminal screen comes up on the RV280 and the two HD3600 screens go blank.

This suggests that all 3 monitors/ 2 graphics cards are all working ok, and ubuntu is happy with them.

My problem now is to make the RV280 accessable via X/gnome at the same time as the HD3600.

It would be nice to have it as a 3rd monitor on a very wide desktop, but I'd settle for it being its own little window running various tasks/programs such as mail/firefox.

Any help is much appreciated.
 
Old 01-01-2011, 03:33 PM   #2
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You may have difficulty getting this working while the catalyst drivers are installed. 'radeon' should support both video cards, so I would recommend uninstalling catalyst, backing up your xorg.conf file, and generating a whole new one with 'Xorg -configure'. Theoretically Xorg will detect both cards and create an xorg.conf file that includes them both. You can then hopefully tweak the xorg.conf to work as you would like.
 
Old 01-03-2011, 09:39 AM   #3
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Thanks Adamk75.

Did as you suggested and now have 3 monitors working... to a point!

The monitor on the RV280 doesn't auto detect, so has incorrect size and the monitors on the HD3600 won't do anything but mirror even when I try using system>preferences>monitors.

However I guess now I need to read up on xorg.conf settings to manually input resolutions and set up monitor 3 to be seperate and "right of."

That at least will give me 3 working independent displays.. I guess after that I need to look at xcinemara or RandR to bridge into one large virtual monitor?

Hopefully I can mark this as solved after a little work and reading :-)
 
Old 01-03-2011, 09:43 AM   #4
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Can you post the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that you are using? What I can tell you right off the bat is that you will not want to use randr. In fact, you really can't use randr when you have multiple monitors on multiple video cards.

Adam
 
Old 01-04-2011, 02:52 PM   #5
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As requested.

The system now boots up and logs in correctly with 3 totaly independent heads and the resolutions are all set ok :-) (1280/1024 on the AOC's and 1920/1080 on the LG)



Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "ManualSetup"
	Screen      0  "ScreenLeft" 0 0
	Screen      1  "ScreenCenter" RightOf "ScreenLeft"
	Screen      2  "ScreenRight" RightOf "ScreenCenter"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri2"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "RV280"
	Driver      "radeon"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "HD3600AOC"
	Driver      "radeon"
	BusID       "PCI:4:0:0"
        Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "HD3600LG"
	Driver      "radeon"
	BusID       "PCI:4:0:0"
        Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "MonitorLeft"
	VendorName   "AOC"
	ModelName    "AOC LM929"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
        VertRefresh  55.0 - 75.0
        Option       "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "MonitorCenter"
	VendorName   "AOC"
	ModelName    "AOC LM929"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
        VertRefresh  55.0 - 75.0
        Option       "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "MonitorRight"
	VendorName   "LG"
	ModelName    "M2262D"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
        Option       "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "ScreenLeft"
	Device     "RV280"
	Monitor    "MonitorLeft"
        DefaultDepth  24
        Option      "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0; CRT: 640x480 +0+0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "ScreenCenter"
	Device     "HD3600AOC"
	Monitor    "MonitorCenter"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "ScreenRight"
	Device     "HD3600LG"
	Monitor    "MonitorRight"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection


I think I may have a problem with the modules loaded as glxinfo results in an error.
Code:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) 20090101  TCL DRI2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.9-devel
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, 
    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters, 
    GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, 
    GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, 
    GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, 
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, 
    GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, 
    GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, 
    GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, 
    GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution, 
    GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, 
    GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_histogram, 
    GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, 
    GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, 
    GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, 
    GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture, 
    GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, 
    GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, 
    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, 
    GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, 
    GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object, 
    GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, 
    GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, 
    GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATI_fragment_shader, 
    GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, 
    GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, 
    GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_MESA_window_pos, 
    GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, 
    GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_OES_read_format, 
    GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

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glxinfo: ../common/xmlconfig.c:982: driQueryOptionb: Assertion `cache->info[i].name != ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted
It may be because I originally had the ati propriatry drivers when i just had the HD3600 card in so might be something left over?
Last edited by JonathanWilson; 01-04-2011 at 02:55 PM. Reason: mucked up xorg.conf, resolved problem
 
Old 01-04-2011, 03:37 PM   #6
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Hmmm... The output of glxinfo looks fine right till that Assertion. If any of fglrx were left over, I'd expect the renderer string to show the software rasterizer (or for glxinfo to fail completely). Do 3D applications work at all?

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Hummm thats interesting!

On card0, screen0 (the older RV280 card) glxinfo and glxgears etc all work with no problems... and blender works although so slowly its unusable :-(

On the HD 3600 the problem occurs on both monitors/sessions. So I think the next step is double check the removal of flgrx, then remove totally the radeon drivers and re-install them, failing that I will try a clean install of Ubuntu.
 
Old 01-05-2011, 08:45 AM   #8
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Honestly, I'd be surprised if you can get 3D acceleration going on all three monitors. Support for 3D acceleration when using separate screens is quite new and probably not well tested on more than two monitors.

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Old 01-19-2011, 05:38 AM   #9
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Well for the record :-/

A clean install of Ubuntu (keeping the original /home folder) solved the problem, partially!

Using the auto configuration that Ubuntu uses at boot not a xorg.conf file only resulted in two of the screens working (HD3600 card) although sometimes as linux booted it would try and use the RV280 which resulted in none of the monitors working. This problem was seemingly random, but may be in part due to soft-resets and also how quick I selected an option at grub.

After adding and changing the conf file to include "xinerama" "true," all 3 monitors worked as one large desktop however trying to run any opengl application resulted in being logged out and having to reenter my user and password. Trying to use RandR failed with some abstract message about not finding something.

There were some error messages logged during the forced logout but were so undecipherable I decided to pull the RV280 card and give my lad one of my 19" monitors.

Its a shame that something that, in theory, should be simple isnt.

I would have been happy with screen left (rv) being one session and center and right (hd) being another but allas this was not to be, lol.
 
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I'm not sure what theory you're referring to, but getting separate video cards working 100% is not simple, in practice or theory.

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