Re: Working setup with two pci-e

[Jean-Daniel P. <jd...@di...>]

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 ?

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