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faceman
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 Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:26 am Post subject: Two nvidia cards - one is legacy |
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I'm trying to get both my Nvidia cards to work with a two-seater setup. First, I'd like to get both working with the Nvidia drivers for acceleration, however one needs the legacy driver.
Is there a way to use both the new and the legacy Nvidia drivers at the same time?
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| faceman wrote: | | Is there a way to use both the new and the legacy Nvidia drivers at the same time? |
No.
| Code: | ~ $ emerge -p nvidia-drivers
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[blocks B ] x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers (is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776)
[ebuild N ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 |
Are you certain the older card won't work with nvidia-drivers, i.e., have you tried it or did you go by the README? My card is supposedly not supported by the newer drivers, but in fact it seemed to work (I tried it on a test-drive of another distro).
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faceman
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Are you certain the older card won't work with nvidia-drivers, i.e., have you tried it or did you go by the README? My card is supposedly not supported by the newer drivers, but in fact it seemed to work (I tried it on a test-drive of another distro). |
Yes, xorg tells me it needs the legacy driver.
That's fine, I'll just use the NV driver for the older one - no big deal.
Another question, then!
My bios is really cheesy, and I can't specify to boot to the AGP video card. Is there some way to specify somewhere else what screen linux boots on?
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the_pearson_person
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I have the same problem.
AGP Geforce 6600
PCI Geforce 4 MX
So no way at all?  I've used the nv driver for the 4 MX and they do the trick however not very stable
Anyone with any other ideas?
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