Triple FAIL with FAIL on top.

[denny]

Regarding this post about my Xorg problems, apparently the Xorg project have removed multi-card support. On purpose.

This makes me unhappy.

There's a bug tracking the issue here, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere at present.

Thanks to reddragdiva for letting me know.

Not really sure what to do now - apparently Hardy (8.04) was the last Ubuntu version to include multi-card support. I guess I'll put my old disk back in for now, with the Hardy system on it - dropping back down to two monitors is actually far more annoying when coding than I thought it would be.

Bah.

Comments

[ciphergoth]

Keep Jaunty, but downgrade the X server?

[reddragdiva]

They didn't deliberately break it, more it was collateral damage they didn't do anything about as the multicard user base is minimal (i.e. there wasn't lots of screaming near the event).

The problem is that X has very few developers and the overwhelmingly common use case is single desktop, clients on same machine as server.

[poggs]

What about a dualhead card?

[denny]

I'm running three monitors off of two cards. Or rather, I was... currently I'm running two off of one.