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Tripple Headded woes

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Tripple Headded woes
« on: May 05, 2008, 04:35:40 »
My desktop is currently setup with 3 monitors, two feeding of a PCI-E Radeon HD 2400 Pro, and the third connected to a an onboard Radeon X1200... Device manager reports ATI Catalyst driver version 8.442.0.0 on both cards, which I assume is the 8.4 (latest according to amd site)...

Trying to run nehe's lwjgl tutorial 1 dies with the following stacktrace:
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org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not find a valid pixel format
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplayPeerInfo.initDC(WindowsDisplayPeerInfo.java:54)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:150)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:260)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:709)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:691)
at Example.createWindow(Example.java:141)
at Example.init(Example.java:149)
at Example.run(Example.java:56)
at Example.main(Example.java:47)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90)

If I disable the 3rd monitor (the one on the onboard gfx card) leaving the other two enabled everything works fine. I kinda like having the 3rd monitor... javadoc's on one screen, firefox on another IDEA on nice big widescreen... gives me warm fuzzy feelings  ;D I have no troubles with other C++ based openGL games (UT2004 & cube run fine).

Any idea why it wont work?

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Re: Tripple Headded woes
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2008, 05:30:53 »
do you have up-to-date drivers for all of your cards (not sure if they share the same radeon package)?
I use 3 monitors myself (matrox + radeon) - and I dont have any problems.

Re: Tripple Headded woes
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2008, 06:57:38 »
As far as i know I have the latest driver installed, and according to the device manager its being used by both cards.

Ill redownload the latest driver tonight and try again.