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Comment by muyuu | Hacker News Reader

This is why I went to Mint then back to Debian. Still, having to deal with terribly buggy ATI/AMD proprietary drivers, because I need openCL.

If you can avoid ATI you shall be fine in Debian land.

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I used to feel the same way, since finding in c. 2006 that using an ATI card with Linux was pretty much impossible. However, this all changed when I built a new machine last year, and wanted 3 monitors. Two monitors worked great with Nvidia; 3 was impossible. I've found that, although still a little buggy, 3 monitors w/ Ubuntu, ATI/AMD graphics card and "EyeFinity" works great (on KDE at least): http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation... Note that you must use a single graphics card for this, which therefore must support 3 monitors. And in response to the grandparent -- I had the same issues with the order of monitors. Luckily they were all identical, so I just swapped the plugs.

If you use two different cards and some playing around with X.org you can get the nVidia drivers to play nice with 3 monitors.

Granted, it might be the most difficult configuration I've ever tried to figure out on *nix and I'm not trying to shoot you down, but for anyone reading your comment it's not actually "impossible".

I run 2 high-end ATI/AMD cards (scientific compuptations in openCL).

It continues to be hell.

Surely, their drivers work fine in some configurations, but sometimes you cannot afford to change your setup to accomodate their buggy drivers.

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