OK, let's go back to Matthew's post (mtippett) since that's the closest thing to definitive we have.
"To configure multiview, run the following aticonfig commands with a clean (ie: no fglrx sections).
This tells aticonfig to configure for dual head (ie: :0.0 and :0.1 for each device), all devices and finally turns xinerama on.
For the record, this configuration is not yet fully supported without homogeneous FireGL proucts. The level of support for consumer cards is independent desktops (--xinerama=off). The heterogenous consumer support will come in a later release.
If you have problems, please post both your xorg.conf, lspci and finally your XOrg.0.log."
My reading of this is that (a) you need to use Xinerama to get all 4 screens into a single desktop, (b) use with Xinerama has been verified with FireGL products but not yet with consumer products, so some troubleshooting & fixing may be required, (c) current support for consumer cards seems to be independent desktops (presumably a separate 2-screen desktop for each card), and (d) if you post your full logs, conf, lspci output etc.. we might be able to help.
The above is *not* an official statement, just my interpretation of what Matthew said. I don't have much recent experience with multi-head systems (boo hoo, I only have one screen ) but I can ask for clarification next week.
In the meantime, Locksley could you please pastebin full logs, not the edited sections pasted into multiple posts ? The pastebin facility (or one of the others like it) should let you post a single link to the entire log.
Locksley;
1. Don't worry about the mess, with the smaller pic it doesn't show
2. This is an awkward time for multihead Xorg graphics; the move to randr kind of lost the ability to manage multiple GPUs the old way, but randr hasn't been extended with GPU objects to support multiple adapters the new way. The radeon driver supports "zaphod mode" (rather than randr-style multi-screen) but from previous discussions with agd5f I think randr still gets in the way when you try to have multiple GPUs.
3. The setup you ran years ago was pre-randr, so probably would have worked, but I don't think you would have had more than the most basic acceleration on most of the screens. Multiview is a completely different implementation, with full 3D acceleration on all heads.
ryansturmer;
Looks like you are trying to get basically the same configuration running, except with 3 screens rather than 4. Can you also please pastebin full logs etc.. as above ?
"To configure multiview, run the following aticonfig commands with a clean (ie: no fglrx sections).
aticonfig --inital=dual-head -f --adapters=all --xinerama=on
For the record, this configuration is not yet fully supported without homogeneous FireGL proucts. The level of support for consumer cards is independent desktops (--xinerama=off). The heterogenous consumer support will come in a later release.
If you have problems, please post both your xorg.conf, lspci and finally your XOrg.0.log."
My reading of this is that (a) you need to use Xinerama to get all 4 screens into a single desktop, (b) use with Xinerama has been verified with FireGL products but not yet with consumer products, so some troubleshooting & fixing may be required, (c) current support for consumer cards seems to be independent desktops (presumably a separate 2-screen desktop for each card), and (d) if you post your full logs, conf, lspci output etc.. we might be able to help.
The above is *not* an official statement, just my interpretation of what Matthew said. I don't have much recent experience with multi-head systems (boo hoo, I only have one screen ) but I can ask for clarification next week.
In the meantime, Locksley could you please pastebin full logs, not the edited sections pasted into multiple posts ? The pastebin facility (or one of the others like it) should let you post a single link to the entire log.
Locksley;
1. Don't worry about the mess, with the smaller pic it doesn't show
2. This is an awkward time for multihead Xorg graphics; the move to randr kind of lost the ability to manage multiple GPUs the old way, but randr hasn't been extended with GPU objects to support multiple adapters the new way. The radeon driver supports "zaphod mode" (rather than randr-style multi-screen) but from previous discussions with agd5f I think randr still gets in the way when you try to have multiple GPUs.
3. The setup you ran years ago was pre-randr, so probably would have worked, but I don't think you would have had more than the most basic acceleration on most of the screens. Multiview is a completely different implementation, with full 3D acceleration on all heads.
ryansturmer;
Looks like you are trying to get basically the same configuration running, except with 3 screens rather than 4. Can you also please pastebin full logs etc.. as above ?
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