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Date: | Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:53:46 -0400 |
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From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
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> I understood your reply "ATI Radeon HD 6870" as an indication that you > found this card to work with multiple heads (monitors). Yes. > I also interpreted your response as an indication that your 4 > monitors are driven by 2 cards plugged into the motherboard. No. The one Radeon HD I have can drive up to four monitors all by itself, with just one GPU chip. > > The problems I had were with two identical nVidia cards. One driver > > binary loaded, but it showed X two driver instances. > I'm reading this as you expected the driver to load once and be "shared" > by all of the monitors/graphics card instances. That seems like a > reasonable assumption but I'm not understanding how that caused the X issue. One driver but two device instances registered with X, one for each card.
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