Triple FAIL with FAIL on top.

Sat, 30 May 2009 10:06:54 GMT

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.

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Triple fail.

Fri, 29 May 2009 09:20:09 GMT

Since installing Ubuntu 9.04 I've been unable to get my three-screen set-up working again.

I can get it to run either the two screens from the PCIe card, or the single screen on the PCI card, but not all three screens at once.

Here is the xorg.conf for all three screens, and the diffs to get the two/one screen set-ups (I just remove the unwanted screens from the server layout section - everything else stays the same):

http://pastebin.com/m6304c8a

Here is the Xorg.0.log for each of the set-ups:

http://pastebin.com/m7af1b62c (2 screens, PCIe card, works)
http://pastebin.com/m177b81ab (1 screen, PCI card, works)
http://pastebin.com/m721a574c (3 screens, both cards - broken)

If anybody has any great ideas on how to fix it, I'd love to hear them.

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I accidentally in your base

Triple FAIL with FAIL on top.

Triple fail.