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Michael, you forgot something... recently you claimed:
Originally posted by Michael LarabelHowever, if you're using such a high-end graphics card with the open-source driver stack at this point, it's rather silly and can find much better performance out of using the AMD Catalyst binary driver to exploit the full potential out of the pricey hardware.
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At work our standard desktop for our production systems we are using two Radeon HD 5450/6350 cards, on a 4 head setup, (4x1600x1200). It has been the most stable 4 head solution we have had. Its very nice and cheap too, as the cards only run about 40 bucks a peice. All running under RHEL 5.8.
I'm doing the upgrade to the Catalyst 3.1 driver and RHEL 5.9 on our production systems this week. Can't wait until we can go to RHEL 6.x as we can then have all one display (0.0) using Xinerama, it doesn't work on the older X server in RHEL 5.x though.
Sadly, getting to RHEL 6 is probably over a year away yet. Though we are getting some development machines at 6.4 to start checking out our software on.
We were looking at going 6 head, but may just go to 4x1920x1200. All our software(custom in house) is setup to expect at 1600x1200 layout. just need to change about 40 displays in one shot. Not hard to change the software and its layout, we just need to change everything at once, as most windows have a specific --geometry setting to bring it up in.Last edited by matobinder; 19 May 2013, 09:40 PM.
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I've been running 6x 1280x1024 LCDs on a single Radeon HD 5870 using the free software radeon for about a year now. I don't have issues with my desktop not remembering my monitor layout or anything either.
Debian Wheezy, XFCE, ArandR, direct rendering on all screens (although I wouldn't play 3D games on this aside from Q3A).
Code:$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 7680 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192 DisplayPort-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 340mm x 270mm 1280x1024 75.0 + 60.0* 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DisplayPort-1 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 60.0* 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 848x480 60.0 640x480 59.9 DisplayPort-2 connected 1280x1024+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 60.0* 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 848x480 60.0 640x480 59.9 DisplayPort-3 connected 1280x1024+3840+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DisplayPort-4 connected 1280x1024+5120+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 359mm x 287mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 1280x960 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 60.0 720x400 70.1 DisplayPort-5 connected 1280x1024+6400+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 340mm x 270mm 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 $
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Originally posted by boltronics View Post(although I wouldn't play 3D games on this aside from Q3A).
Although, I wonder if 3D would work on all monitors in this config and how fast? : P
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Originally posted by brosis View PostAlthough, I wonder if 3D would work on all monitors in this config and how fast? : P
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