Is xrandr1.4 available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

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Issue

  • Need xrandr version 1.4 to support multiple GPUs with single display across multiple monitors.
  • With the current version, it is not possible to use Xinerama with xrandr.
  • Package libXrandr is already version 1.4, but /usr/bin/xrandr supplied from package xorg-x11-server-utils reports version 1.3.
  • The requirement is to use Xrandr v1.4 with the closed-source NVIDIA driver to support a desktop spanned across the output from two NVIDIA-driven NVIDIA cards. Xrandr v1.3 is not supported by the NVIDIA driver for GPU programming.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • xrandr version 1.4

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