Nvidia and ATI in one System

[Moritz Lutz]

Thanks Alexander,

is it possible to show me you xorg.conf? Or are you using the
Multiseat option on this system?

greetings
Moritz

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)
<Alexander.Mader at niles.de> wrote:
> Moritz Lutz schrieb:
>>
>> i got a general Question. I got a nvidia onboard graphic card and a
>> ATI X1550 (PCI) with dual dvi in my System and i want to use both
>> cards.
>> Is this possible?
>
> Hello,
>
> yes, it is, and not just in principle: I am running a (quite old) system
> with nVidia AGP and ATI PCI card using the open source drivers since May
> this year. In my setup the closed source drivers cause trouble as I had to
> confirm the day before yesterday when I tried the 173.14.09 driver as it is
> shipped with Debian testing and got a frozen system. The last fglrx test is
> a bit older and resulted in slow 2D.
>
>> I want to use a vga Monitor on the nvidia, and two dvi monitors on the
>> ATI. Because during my tests i got no success, i got it working that
>> all 3 Screens got black but then the hole System was freeze ( it was
>> opensuse 11.0 ).
>
> I was able to cope with black screens and freezes by using a dummy X server
> for initialization as mentioned for instance here[1]. Obviously, it didn't
> help with my latest closed source nVidea test, see above. So, perhaps it is
> unnecessary.
>
> I assume you want to use Xinerama with the double head ATI card. I have no
> idea about this.
>
> Regards and enjoy :-) Alexander.
>
> [1]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX
>
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