ATI Eyefinity under linux

ATI Eyefinity under linux

I know that the new 5xxx series cards from ATI are capable of powering up to 6 monitors, but I was curious if anyone had any such luck setting this up under linux. I actually only have three monitors that I am interested in using, but three is the point where the previous generation video cards started to get a little buggy as a result of needing multiple video cards. Is the linux support for this capability any good at this point, or is the Eyefinity support really only for windows at this time.

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Guest [Entry]

"Catalyst 10.7 adds support for Eyefinity on Linux: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODQ0OA

This will allow you to have 3 monitors on one AMD/ATI graphics card with 3D acceleration."

Guest [Entry]

"I believe the official line from ATI is they do indeed intend to officially support Eyefinity on the Linux platform.

To quote from www.amd.com
- ""Linux support scheduled to be enabled via a future ATI Catalyst™ driver release.""

I myself can't wait for this support to be forthcoming as I find the current situation with multiple cards and composited desktops is far from optimal. There has been some fleeting comments on the xorg dev mailing list suggesting some work on re-factoring Xinerama to be compatible with the compositing extensions but I'm not sure how long this may take them, or if indeed it will be seen through to its conclusion.

Even though eventually the ATI cards look like they will provide a way to side step those issues for those that can afford to upgrade their cards, it's still important for Xorg to support compositing with a multi card setup as this is the most common way of providing three or more head desktops and hopefully it wont take the xorg devs too long to make it possible.

I wonder if there's enough community desire for Xinerama compatible compositing in xorg to actually come together and pay a collective bounty in order to get this work done? I for one would be willing to send some money their way to make this happen."