Ubuntu :: ATI Catalyst Support Eyefinity Triple Head In 10.04
Jul 19, 2010
I have been trying to figure out if Eyefinity will work in Ubuntu 10.04 for three monitors. I can test this at work where we have three monitor, one with a display port connection. I just want to know if it is worth trying, and if so what catalyst drive might work.
So I have done a lot of searching and have found a number of yes and no answers.
To start with Lanchpad has a change log saying it should work.
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This guy says it work once did but does not now.
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Then someone tries and fails with Catalyst 10.6. Seem like a lot of other good info here.
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Then to finish it up these guys have some rumors that seem to say Catalyst 10.7 will support this.
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I think I will wait for Catalyst 10.7 and then give it a try.
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Jul 11, 2011
I'm trying to get rid of my dedicated media center and connect my desktop to my TV instead. No matter what I change I get no picture at all on the TV when connected to the desktop. I already have two LCD monitors using nvidia's "TwinView" mode and I want the TV to just be an extension of this, at a lower resolution.
My system information is below, but note that anything in the tag " ### NEW {}" in the xorg.conf is my attempt at getting this to work, the rest was already there. Two LCD monitors are screens 0 and 1, the TV is screen 2.
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Oct 21, 2010
I have a GeForce 8400 GS card and I run two monitors. I use Xinerama (don't recall now why but I think XrandR didn't work for me) and nvidia. I would like three monitors now and I see here[URL].... My onboard video is disabled by the mobo if I use a video card [URL]... so it seems I need a new video card.
Should I get another GeForce 8400 GS for $40 from Amazon? I suppose the only other idea would be to get a 3-head card but those seem a lot more expensive.
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Jul 28, 2011
Yesterday I updated my F15 x86_64 system from kernel 2.6.38.6-27 to 2.6.38.8-35. After the reboot, my triple-head system complained of not having enough CRTCs and only 2 screens worked. Other components were also updated, including some X11 components, however selecting a fallback kernel at the grub prompt indicates this follows the kernel (fall back to old kernel has all 3 monitors working). xrandr --verbose on the 2.6.38.6-27 kernel shows each of the 3 monitors assigned to separate CRTC entries, with CRTCs 0 thru 5 available.
Same command on the new 2.6.38.8-35 system only shows CRTCs 0 & 1 available. My system using an XFX Radeon HD5450 card, with 3 interfaces: HDMI, DVI, VGA. The default Fedora open source "radeon" driver allows all 3 interfaces to be usable. However, with the new kernel, the loss of several CRTCs prevents the 3rd monitor from working.What are the thoughts from the community? I've searched various forums here and haven't seen similar symptoms reported. I'm looking for any direction/experience/thingsToTry from others before trying to open a bug report. (Attempts to use the Catalyst driver several months ago resulted in only 2 of the 3 connected monitors working.
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Aug 25, 2010
I currently have 2 GPUs in my system both ATI. The primary is a HD4870 and the secondary is a HD4350.
I have a 24" and a 17" running in twin view from the 4870 but I can't figure out a way to enable my third monitor to display anything at all, I have tried multiple configurations but I end up breaking the xorg every time.
All I simply want to do is keep my twinview on the monitors run by the 4870 but have the third monitor as a separate X session so I can still use compiz. Here is my xorg file, it was generated by aticonfig.
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
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Jul 29, 2011
Is it possible to use Eyefinity in Linux? Like having one big workspace like in Windows?
Can't seem to find any option for it, though i managed to get all three monitors as one big display group.
Or does it depend on the WM? If so, is it possible have one big workspace with awesome WM for example?
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Jul 19, 2011
I have read all the HOW TO's on the forum but don't have find this error: ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager which: no XFree86 in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/tb/bin)
Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version default:v2:x86_64:lib::none:2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64; make sure that the version is being correctly set by --iscurrentdistro Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.yUVIkk
it's the catalyst for Radeon X700 downloaded directly from the official site of ATI. I have find on the HOW O's that the card older than the HD - series were not supported but why I can download this catalyst for the X700 on the official site if it isn't supperted? Here is also the lspci:
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Feb 3, 2011
So everytime I resume Ubuntu from hibernation, it remains black for a time then 2 messages on the screen appear for about 10 seconds before I can log-in:
Code: [ 0.556247] [drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring head not reset to zero ctl 00000000 head 02001000 tail 00000000 start 02001000 [ 0.556320] [drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring head forced to zero ctl 00000000 head 00000000 tail 00000000 start 02001000
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Apr 14, 2010
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Feb 6, 2010
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Mar 16, 2010
I'm setting up my menu.lst for GRUB Legacy (downgraded from GRUB2 in 9.10) and I'm just having difficulty getting my head around converting the /dev/sda1, sda2 etc to hd(0,0), (0,1).
My partitions are as follows:
sda1 = Windows XP (ntfs primary partition)
sda2 = Windows Vista (ntfs primary partition)
sda3 = Linux boot (small ext2 primary partition)
sda4 = extended partition
sda5 = Windows XP second different installation (ntfs logical partition)
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sda7 = linux-swap (swap logical partition)
As I said, I am trying to set these up in GRUB, but cannot work out what all the hd(0,x) equivalents are. I *thought* it was just a case of subtracting 1 from the sdax number, but it doesn't appear to be that way.
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Apr 1, 2010
I would like to be able to change the Head Line / Title to include the working "fixed, solved" or some thing similar, in bright green ot red, maybe blue
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Jun 14, 2010
I am trying out conky for the first time and rather enjoying it. I have a small frustration though. I have a dual head setup and would like to have identical conky's showing on both monitors. I have tried creating two .conkyrc's (.conkyrc1 & .conkyrc2) and then using:-
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$ conky -c config1
$ conky -c config2
to launch them, this results in only one of the two conky's displaying. I did at first think that maybe they were on top of eachother, but one conkyrc is set bottom_left, the other bottom_right so they should not be right??
When I try to run them as above terminal shows:-
Code:
gregg@burt:~$ conky -c config1
Conky: invalid configuration file 'config1'
Conky: invalid num arg for top. Must be between 1 and 10.
Conky: invalid num arg for top. Must be between 1 and 10.
Conky: invalid num arg for top. Must be between 1 and 10.
Conky: invalid num arg for top. Must be between 1 and 10.
Conky: invalid num arg for top. Must be between 1 and 10.
Conky: invalid num arg for top. Must be between 1 and 10.
Conky: forked to background, pid is 7017 .....
#NETWORK
${font Sans:size=9:weight=bold}${color grey}NETWORK ${hr 2}$color${font Sans:size=8:weight=bold}
${color grey} DOWNLOAD UPLOAD
${downspeedgraph eth0 30,115 000000 00ff00} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 30,115 000000 ff0000}$color
Processes 8 & 9 do not appear in my conky, just blank space between 7 & 10?? Also, the swap %age displays 'No swap%'?
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Jun 19, 2010
I just installed lucid on my laptop with a second screen. Unfortunately, I cannot display any video. Neither on the laptop screen nor on the second external screen. In contrast, rebooting without attaching the external screen allows me to display videos again.
I never experienced this kind of behavior with Ubuntu 9.10.
Graphic card: Intel 945
Let me know if you need further information.
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Jan 28, 2010
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Aug 17, 2010
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How to use it was to make it a server farm (or whatever its called) where the head computer takes the slaves power for itself. I know this is possible (i.e their called super computers but its just 2 high power laptops. I googled around and searched on the forums too and found nothing.
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Jan 2, 2011
I have my computer set up to use separate x screens for both of my monitors and almost everything works perfectly. With this set up I don't have any problem displaying flash in full screen on either monitor like I had with twinview. I have it set up this way so that I can use my TV to display mythtv and still use my computer monitor to browse the web, etc. The only problem is that I use my iphone with hipporemote to give me a wireless keyboard/mouse. When using twinview this was not a problem as it was just one large desktop spread over two monitors.
However, switching to separate x screens seems to have broken the functionality of the vnc server. When using my physical keyboard and mouse I can just move the cursor off the side of monitor 1 to control monitor 2, however, if I'm connected via vnc the cursor gets "trapped" inside the active monitor. I can interact with each screen as expected but if I want to switch the mouse/keyboard focus to the other monitor I have to go to the computer and move the mouse to the desired monitor, which obviously defeats the purpose of using the iphone as a wireless remote.
So my question is this. Is there a way to assign a hotkey combination to switch the focus of keyboard and mouse that the vnc server is controlling? Or could I set the vnc server to only control one of the two x screens?
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May 2, 2011
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Lowering the input gain further seems to work, but then all the "normal" words sound too weak.
I read a description of what Automatic Gain Control generally does, and it seems like something that was designed specifically to solve this problem, but I can't find an option to enable something like that in Ubuntu.
... I'm assuming the option exists, or that there is maybe some other trick to normalizing the mic volume (other than post-processing with audacity)?
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Jul 16, 2010
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Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.36-rc3-10-default
Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.36-rc3-10-default
Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_6L020J1_6612-part1 (/dev/sda1) (mounted on / as ext4)Resume device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_6L020J1_661-part2 (/dev/sda2)
modprobe: Module via82cxxx not found.
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Jun 14, 2011
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May 9, 2010
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My card:
Code:
rogier@rogier-desktop:~$ lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
My xorg.conf, which worked fine on Karmic:
Code:
Section "Monitor"
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May 14, 2010
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I rely on xcalib from Stefan Doehla to invert my screen gamma ramps, ie turn them to white text on black backgrounds. This worked perfectly, just using
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May 15, 2010
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#!/bin/sh
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
3) copy this file to 3 locations:
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Sep 9, 2010
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Feb 17, 2011
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