ATI Eyefinity under linux

Question

I know that the new 5xxx series cards from ATI are capable of powering up to 6 monitors, but I was curious if anyone had any such luck setting this up under linux. I actually only have three monitors that I am interested in using, but three is the point where the previous generation video cards started to get a little buggy as a result of needing multiple video cards. Is the linux support for this capability any good at this point, or is the Eyefinity support really only for windows at this time.

UPDATE 4/7/11: Since this page is the top hit on Google for linux eyefinity, I'd like to update it with more up-to-date information. I recently purchased a 5870 card, and using the drivers from ATI I was able to get eyefinity working much easier than I had expected. The driver even allowed me to rotate one of my monitors, something I had wanted to do for a long time. This has proved to be a much cleaner solution for my scenario than dual videos cards and xinerama.

Solution

Catalyst 10.7 adds support for Eyefinity on Linux: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODQ0OA

This will allow you to have 3 monitors on one AMD/ATI graphics card with 3D acceleration.

Comments

[Admin]

Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I have my three monitors up and running on a nvidia 9800 GT and a nvidia quadro nvs 295 (for pcie x1). I indeed did go through the frustration, but eventually got it working. Like you though, the thought of a single card solution sounded particularly nice, so I wanted to see if it was possible yet. Thanks.

[Admin]

It has actually been done on Linux already, AMD just aren't releasing the driver yet. Check out this YouTube video to see it in all it's glory :-) youtube.com/watch?v=N6Vf8R_gOec

[Admin]

This answer is now out of date. Catalyst 10.7 adds support for Eyefinity on Linux. See my answer for more details.

[gatoatigrado]

they're at 10.11 now apparently, have you retried? Also, are you using the binary driver or Ubuntu package? With nVidia proprietary drivers, it's sometimes better to install through their package; not sure if this is the case with AMD.