From: Kyle Bennett [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:08 AM
To: Killebrew, Carrell
Cc: Brent Justice; Hook, Chris; Marsden, JayM
Subject: Mixing displays.

Carrell,

Let me ask you a question that I have already been asked more than once since last night. I am directing this at you since we specifically address this sort of configuration in your offices.

Here is a post that is on this topic.

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=102

Folks are wanted to use a landscape 30" (2560x1600) in the middle with two portrait 20" displays (1200x1600) on either side for an Eyefinity display group of 3760x1600. We talked about this exactly. It seems it is not supported currently if I understand the literature.

To be clear: Is such and Eyefinty display group supported? If no, will it be in the future? If yes, ETA?

Kyle R Bennett

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Good question. Your understanding of the literature is correct. A bit more elaboration…

Currently Eyefinity is constrained when in SLS modes. Please note that I say currently. Currently Eyefinity with a 5870 board supports one SLS. Any SLS grouping requires that the monitors be the same resolution. The intention is to support more than one SLS (before the end of the year), but I am not sure that solves the problem. I believe the problem this poster wants solved is a constellation of:

pLp

Where the “p”s are lower resolution than the L. Grouping the two “p”s and servicing them from an SLS isn’t an apparent solution (the two P’s are displaying non-contiguous information). I can envision how it might be done, but I don’t know if that is in our current plans or whether that might is a real possibility. If you aren’t doing the engineering, many times you aren’t aware of other limiting factors.

I will do this Kyle – I will ask this question point-blank to the guys who are actually doing the engineering. And I will give you the answer, good, bad, or indifferent. Is that OK?

Extended desktop (the non-SLS mode for Eyefinity) works the way it has always worked, but I don’t think that applies here.