Multiple video cards
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Jul 27 23:17:46 UTC 2014
Test system:
FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64 r269160
AMD A8-3850 APU (Radeon HD6550D)
Radeon X1650 PCIe card
Under IGX Configuration, the APU motherboard BIOS has a "Surround View"
setting. When enabled, the onboard HD6550 GPU remains enabled when an
additional video card is connected.
With the HD6550 disabled, the X1650 works fine. pciconf shows only one
video device.
With the HD6550 enabled, both video devices show in pciconf, and X gives
the "screens not found" error unless both are defined in xorg.conf. X
starts, but xrandr only shows the HD6550, and only the monitors attached
to the motherboard video connectors work. xrandr only shows that cards.
There may be more settings required in xorg.conf. I think that Xinerama
is obsolete, but don't know.
Based on some Linux stuff:
% xrandr --listproviders
RandR 1.4 not supported
Is there a right way to define multiple monitors on more than one card
for the same virtual screen?
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