Switching to ogl fullscreen mode in Eyefinity

[IM back!]

I use a 3 monitor setup 3x 1680*1050 (eyefinity) with catalyst 10.8.
Btw. it reports 10.7, how hard can it be to change a version number?
Anyways it works fine as long as i don't try to run a full screen ogl application, if i do the application will run on one screen with a max resolution of 1680*1050. And when i exits it dose not return to a 3x 1680*1050 but remains in single head mode, until I restart x. This is with xcinerama off, but still with one singel x display (i assume FGLRX uses a propriety method similar to twin-view to achieve this). if i turn xcinerama on it works as expected with the ogl application stretching to a full 5040*1680. but i loose composing, also as expected.

Is this a bug or a unimplemented feature? I do realize that a Linux user with a tipple-head ati setup is a pretty far corner case, so im happy that it works at all.

This is on PCLOS with a default FGLRX 10.8 install from the ati installer with a hd5850.

[bridgman]

Sometimes a wrong version number is a typo in the driver code, other times it means you didn't do a full uninstall before installing the new driver and are actually running a mix of old and new files (which can bring problems).

[lord-carlos]

My installation of fglrx reports 10.8 as the version number. Maybe there went something wrong on the installtion.
Try to make a clean install again.

[IM back!]

uninsulated catalyst, clean reinstalled it after reboot and deletion of all ati files i could find with "search | grep ati". it now sayes 10.8 but the issue remains the same.

for instance sauerbraten:

Unable to create OpenGL screen: No video mode large enough for 5040x1050

works fine in windows and in 1680*1050

same thing goes for a short irrlicht test app i made.

[rohcQaH]

There's an ancient X extension for modesetting, as simple as "get list of supported resolutions, pick one". It doesn't really understand multiple screens.

I'm not sure if there's a simple fix for the issue. There's no mechanism for defining available multi-screen modes (like TwinView does). And those cannot be automatically added, because (unlike Xinerama), XRandR doesn't have permanently defined monitor positions (like DVI-1 right of DVI-0); with XRandR those can change on the fly.

A workaround may be to run the application windowed with the desired resolution, tell your window manager to display that window alway on top and borderless.

[IM back!]

another (somewhat) unrelated question: what makes xcinerama and composing mutually exclusive? it doesn't make sense to me, because i do have ogl acceleration on all screens in xcinerama.

[nanonyme]

uninsulated catalyst, clean reinstalled it after reboot and deletion of all ati files i could find with "search | grep ati". it now sayes 10.8 but the issue remains the same.

for instance sauerbraten:

Unable to create OpenGL screen: No video mode large enough for 5040x1050

works fine in windows and in 1680*1050

same thing goes for a short irrlicht test app i made.

I suspect you're bumping into the 4096x4096 limit. (which I recall to be a hardware limit on at least r600 for some size whose name I don't remember) Just a guess though.

[nanonyme]

I suspect you're bumping into the 4096x4096 limit. (which I recall to be a hardware limit on at least r600 for some size whose name I don't remember) Just a guess though.

Mind, fglrx might and could have a workaround for that, I honestly wouldn't know.

[IM back!]

cant be a hardware limit on windows the same thing works fine. a big evergreen is eyefinity wich supports huge resolutions.

[IM back!]

I meant to say: Cant be a hardware limit as on windows the same thing works fine. A big point of evergreen is eyefinity which supports huge resolutions.

damn you edit limit.