Made the switch yesterday to Ubuntu and got 3 of my 4 monitors working with one of the 270x cards (have two 270x cards in the box) I can't seem to get the second card configured as of yet, did also get Win7 set up in Virtualbox which is working fine for the file maintenance I need to do. I have a lot to learn but so far it's been enjoyable.... now to scour the forum to find some answers.
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Refer here for the crossfire setup.. It maybe a bit dated but it works LOLS
http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2336
The 4th monitor can work. You just need to set your x config properly after you setup crossfire
I dont have thousands of displays. Maybe @wendell could help you with the X config... Im not sure which distro he uses. I think its OpenSUSE... but regardless he should be able to provide you some insight to the inital setup for x config
Thank you for the link, I'm going through the steps right now... ;)
Congrats
I highly recommend you try different DEs such as Gnome and Cinnamon. You may find them more intuitive depending on who you are. Don't be afraid to go outside the boundaries of Ubuntu either. You may enjoy what you see.
LOL...I have no intention of staying with the unity DE...it kinda' sucks imho.
Well...followed the link and did get crossfire to work (thank you again) but still no output to the monitor, maybe @wendell might see this and give me a nudge in the right direction...in the mean time I'll keep reading.
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Hmm thats strange.. I havent really encountered that kinda issue.. worth looking into
LOL...well I tried to load gnome3 on top of ubuntu and managed to trash my install (scession woundn't start from login screen) so I blew away Ubuntu14 and just finished installing ubuntu gnome and guess what I have all 4 monitors working and that means crossfire is working because 2 of the monitors are on the second 270x now. So I lost about 6 hrs of messin with it but as with anything new it was a learing experience.
I think I'll go look at which video driver it's using before I get very far into this install.
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I had a guide... You could have asked LOLS.. Tells you how to switch properly LOLS.. but hey your solution works too.. just takes 4 hours longer
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/how-to-guide-ubuntu-switching-desktop-environments/76509/
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Thank you...as I said a learning experience... ;)
So I guess distro hopping is normal for new Linux users and I'm no different, after my first failure with Ubuntu 14 (trashed the OS by installing Gnome3 on top of Unity without removing Unity...lol, so I'm on Ubuntu Gnome playing around and learning more with every step but I'll probably go back to Ubuntu 14 - Unity to try to mimic @Logan desktop theme but I'll follow the guide from above posted by @R00tz31820 (thank you again).
Interesting point I'd like to add was that last night I followed @Zoltan guide for install Windows in a virtual machine (KVM -QEMU, not virtual box) and had a successful install, yea it has some quirks I'll have to work through by probably deleting that install of Win7 and trying it again but it did work, I just need to read more about Virtual Manager and the proper settings to use (I have no sound from the VM).
I'd really like to do my file maintenance from the Linux box but that means I need to be able to connect to two FreeNas boxes using CIFS for Windows shares, access a couple Win7 boxes, my Ubuntu server which isn't a problem with SSH, I need to find a file manager that I like o if anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.
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Your welcome.. Also if you find that a question has been asked but its answer was unsatisfactory for your needs.. You can make a new thread quote the question.. Elaborate on what you need and make your own supporting thread to avoid a necro.. Figure I'd tell this to all the new Linux people here xD
Thanks...
For anyone interested I got the file maintenance issues solved by starting a NTFS share on the FreeNas box and setting up a user/group in FreeNas that coincide with the Linux box user credentials, so I can read, write, and delete the necessary files now...it was much easier than I thought it would be. I'm using Krusader file manager on the Linux box and it works much better than the default file manager that came with Ubuntu/Gnome.
Hopefully tonight I can get back on the VM and give it another try. One issue I do still have is even though all 4 monitors now work it's a spanned desktop (which is ok for now) across all 4 monitors but the issue is as the mouse leaves one monitor (lets say my primary monitor) the curser leaves the wrong side of that monitor only to show up on monitor beside it on the wrong side.
The monitors are arranged in a quad with two on the bottom and two at the top, lets say that the primary monitor is the bottom right monitor and moving the mouse to the right takes it off that screen and it enters the bottom left monitor from the left side of the screen if I keep moving the mouse it will exit that monitor on the right side to appear on the top right monitor from the left side of the screen, if I keep going it will exit on the right of that screen and appear on the left side of the top left screen.... it's not a fluid motion if you follow what I'm saying.
Here's a pic of a similar setup.
I'd guess the only way to resolve the problem is to change the cables to each monitor or around till I get fluid motion I'm looking for (trial & error?) which is move the mouse to the left and it enters the next screen from the right side of that monitor, I'm using the open source driver for AMD cards and have yet to find anywhere to change any of the settings like you could in the catalyst software .
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
If you are going to do KVM Fedora and Opensuse are better suited for it. They both have really nice GUIs for the hypervisor.
I am using KVM and just getting started learning, my problem is my experience with Linux has all been Debian based, I've never installed or maintained a RPM based distro, one of my servers is a Ubuntu box and since I'm just learning on my daily driver I really want to stay for the time being on a debian based distro to avoid confusion when doing things in the terminal. I'm not saying I won't change in the future but until I feel totally comfortable with what I learn/know I think leaning another type of package management system / command line syntax will slow me down and cause confusion.
I'm sure in 6 months I'll have a different opinion but I have no intention of being one of those people who said I tried Linux but I'm going back to windoze because.....(insert reason) I really want this to work for lots of different reasons but mainly because I've grown to dislike/distrust MS and the whole windows scheme, I also have several people around me who think that Linux isn't capable of doing what I want it to do and on that point I've already proven them very wrong and changed opinions in my little circle of influence.
In reality getting a VM to run Windows and allowing me to run GW2 and Adobe would be the crowning achievement that I'm working towards and I do believe it is achievable, if I have to switch to Fedora or OpenSuse down the road to accomplish this I certainly will but I still have much to learn with the path I'm currently on.
It's all good.
For GW2 are you trying to pass through a GPU?
Yes....I have two R9 270x cards in my Linux box.
Is it working?
If not you will have to set boot parameters so it won't boot one of the GPUs then you can give it to the VMS.
Yea...I was able to create a VM and install Win7 but some of the settings in the VM management I wasn't sure of, I didn't make a hardware list first, the VM worked but no sound so that was my second mistake, I need to sit down and read / watch a good tutorial on setting it up.
And that is my third mistake, because I'm sure Linux is still using both GPUs
I would assume that once Linux isn't using that card the monitor connected to it will have no signal until the VM is started?.....like I said lots to learn.