On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Grzegorz Sójka <g...@sojka.co> wrote: > On 01/23/14 23:26, Alex Deucher wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Grzegorz Sójka <g...@sojka.co> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I have 4 identical monitors. So I decided to buy (not to expensive, >>> around 100USD) quad head graphics card. I do not need anything >>> particular. Only office applications, no gaming. The crucial thing is >>> that I would like to be able to span a single window across all 4 >>> monitors. I found following cards: >>> Gigabyte Radeon HD7770 OC > > [...] >> >> Any recent radeon hardware supports multiple monitors just fine with >> the caveat that if you are using more than 2 non-displayport monitors, >> they have to all use the same clock (you are limited to two >> independent clocks), or you need active dp adapters. If all of the >> monitors are identical, it shouldn't be a problem. > > I mentioned the following radeon graphics adapter: > http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4278 > So definitely it is capable of driving for monitors. The question is if it > is possible to configure X server in such a way that all 4 monitors > connected to this particular adapter are in one logical DISPLAY. > At the moment I use two dual head ATI FirePro 2270 graphics cards. As a > consequence I have two logical (dual-monitors) DISPLAYS and I'm not able to > span a single window across more than 2 monitors.
Yes, you can drive 4 displays off a single gpu and use them all as a single desktop. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
