Dual graphics cards - a couple of noob questions :-)

[Skateman]

Morphos Developer Bigfoot is working on a way to boot MorphOS with an X5000 dual graphics setup.

More info: https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/v ... 03&forum=3

(as posted by Bigfoot)
Long story short, if you have a single graphics card in the primary (x16) PCI Express slot that works for you in all the operating systems you want to run, then there was no problem. If you're in a situation where you want to use two different graphics cards for two different operating systems, or even just one graphics card in a PCI Express slot that's not the x16 slot, then you're out of luck, at least until MorphOS 3.17 gets released..

On the MorphOS side, I fixed a few different issues that prevented MorphOS from booting with a graphics card in a non-primary PCI Express slot on the X5000, thus enabling you to, well, boot MorphOS with two graphics cards installed. And no, before anyone asks, using 3 graphics cards in the X5000 won't work with MorphOS

Looking forward to MorphOS 3.17 ...

[Skateman]

Yeah...

01.05.22 - Public Release of MorphOS 3.17

Tweaked the PCI address mapping on the X5000 to accommodate a Radeon on the PCIE1 bus

Hope it works... keep you posted!

[xeno74]

Yeah...

01.05.22 - Public Release of MorphOS 3.17

Tweaked the PCI address mapping on the X5000 to accommodate a Radeon on the PCIE1 bus

Hope it works... keep you posted!

Thanks for the info!

[kas1e]

@All
Can anybody point me out on model of PCIE1<->PCI16 adapter which works with morphos 3.17 now ?

Also, will it works with Linux too ? (i mean that adapter) ?

[trevordick]

Ka1se

It's listed earlier in the thread with images of the adapter.

TrevorD

[Spectre660]

Hi Dave ,

Can you please help with a working xorg.config for dual graphics cards on an X5000. (Radeon Rx550 and Radeon HD6450)
Cant get anything working with the newer kernel .(After Kernel 4.19.325) and that only works with Ubuntu 16.04

Thanks

Regards
Julian

[Spectre660]

Dave

Thanks for the xorg.config .

Managed to get Adelie to boot . Will try some other flavors .

Still cant get Ubuntu Mate 16.04 to boot with new kernels and the dual card config.

Also cut and paste of the xorg.config from your email and from your original post seemed to bring
some unseen incompatible charters into the xorg.config file so had to retype from scratch.
Well worth the effort of course .

This i how i got a second graphics card up and running in my AmigaOne X5000. (click on the link below)

https://www.skateman.nl/index.php/2022/ ... -graphics/



Most issues i had was with getting a working xorg.conf. So here is mine based on the Driver "radeon"
Works with a Radeon HD5450 and 24 Inch samsung lcd panel.

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device1”
Driver “radeon”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AIGLX” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “dri”
Load “dri2”
Load “dbe”
Load “glx”
Load “type1”
Load “freetype”
Load “record”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
Option “RENDER” “Enable”
Option “RANDR” “Enable”
Option “DAMAGE” “Enable”
Option “GLX” “Enable”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Device0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection

[Spectre660]

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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "[AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series]"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "RANDR" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
Option "GLX" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "[AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series]"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection