From: Jean-Daniel P. <jd...@di...> - 2006-07-23 13:39:02
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:30:29PM +0200, zwe...@gm... wrote: > Are the nVidia videocards the best choice with binary drivers for a du= al=20 > head system? Or maybe a mix ATI <-> nVidia, or maybe only Matrox. mixing a propietary-driven card such as nvidia (and possibly recent A= TI=20 cards ??) with another card is a little bit tricky : I once did that=20 but I had to build two separate library trees in order to get each=20 dedicated libraries matching each running instances of XFree, each tr= ee=20 with dedicated 3D libraries installed by their related drivers set. remember that after you have to rebuild all trees each time a new=20 security hole is discovered around X (not that many, lately) it's a l= ot=20 of work if you compare with having one single almost regular binary s= et=20 by using two cards sharing the same drivers. building those two trees is part of this (obsolete but full of ideas)= =20 page here : http://disjunkt.com/dualhead/ unless someone has a better idea for efficiently mixing ati and nvidi= a=20 on the same machine ? -- Jean-Daniel Pauget - http://nekodune.com/ T=E9l: +33 (0)2 33 17 20 16 2, rue Andr=E9 PELCA 50580 Denneville-Plage France |