Re: Requesting experiences with dual-DVI cards

[Alex Deucher <agd5f yahoo com>]

--- Mark Heslep <mark mitre org> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> >>When you said "dual DVI radeon workstation cards" were you
> referring
> >>to
> >>the FireGL class cards?  Since we do not need 3D support those are
> >>out of
> >>our price range.  Or are you speculating that any dual-dvi radeon,
> >>e.g.  
> >>something like the Asus Radeon 9600XT, would work - at least for
> 2D?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I was referring to the fireGL cards, but partner-built dual DVI
> cards
> >should work as well.  
> >
> >  
> >
> Under what?  Yes mine works with your Merged FB from DRI CVS but
> never 
> worked dual head, VGA or otherwise, with the Fedora XFree 4.3.0
> packages 
> and the problem continues with the latest  Fedora development 4..3  
> something -45.  See bug#108963
> 

Mergedfb is in DRI cvs and both are based on the radeon driver from
xfree86 cvs.  I suspect xfree86 cvs may also work.  There were some
pretty big tmds fixes that went in a while back (ati's last big code
drop) that may not be in redhat's build.

> BTW, are there  MergedFB radeon binaries that can be dropped into
> Fedora 
> somewhere?  I tried a radeon binary (maybe from the XFree site ) a ~ 
> month ago on a binary for binary replacement and  couldnt get it to
> go.  
> Had to build the entire beasty.

The binary DRI snapshots on freedesktop.org should work, although, I've
not tried them myself.
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download
make sure you replace ati_drv, radeon_drv, and XFree86 otherwise you
will get version mismatches.

Alex

> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
>

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