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Kresp
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 Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:48 am Post subject: X ignores second GPU. |
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I'm trying to setup two monitors, each on a separate GPU.
This is config file Xorg -configure made:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "kmsdev" # <str>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
#Option "DoubleShadow" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "modesetting"
BusID "PCI:35:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "kmsdev" # <str>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
#Option "DoubleShadow" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "modesetting"
BusID "PCI:37:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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However, when xserver starts, only one monitor (attached to the GPU that goes last in this config) is active. The other one is dark.
If I switch PCI ids, then after restart xserver switches monitors too.
I tried replacing driver option from modesetting to nouveau, but to no avail.
GPUs are GTX960 and GT9800, I use nouveau for both ATM, wm is i3, kernel is 4.10.6.
There's also one weird part - I now have two DISPLAY's - :1.0 and :1.1. But applications launched for them open at the same workspace. |
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Kresp
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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Ah! It actually works, just not every application take DISPLAY variable into account.
Also, i3 handles displays on different GPUs much differently then on the same one - it does not care about them and just handles one "main" one.
You can send output from, let's say, media player to secondary GPU, but there are no workspaces, no ways to manage output size and output just stacks on top of each other. One mpv instance might completely cover the other one, even though both are capable of playback at the same time. |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Kresp ...
perhap the multi-monitor section of the i3 Users Guide will help, specifically '[assign_workspace]'.
best ... khay |
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Jaglover
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Kresp
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:12 am Post subject: |
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I installed i3-py python bindings for i3, and checked get_outputs() - it only returns video outs available on the main GPU:
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[{'name': 'DVI-I-2', 'active': True, 'primary': True, 'current_workspace': '3', 'rect': {'x': 0, 'height': 1200, 'width': 1920, 'y': 0}}, {'name': 'xroot-0', 'active': False, 'primary': False, 'current_workspace': None, 'rect': {'x': 0, 'height': 1200, 'width': 1920, 'y': 0}}, {'name': 'DP-1', 'active': False, 'primary': False, 'current_workspace': None, 'rect': {'x': 0, 'height': 0, 'width': 0, 'y': 0}}, {'name': 'HDMI-2', 'active': False, 'primary': False, 'current_workspace': None, 'rect': {'x': 0, 'height': 0, 'width': 0, 'y': 0}}, {'name': 'DVI-D-1', 'active': False, 'primary': False, 'current_workspace': None, 'rect': {'x': 0, 'height': 0, 'width': 0, 'y': 0}}]
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i3 seems to ignore the second GPU and all monitors attached to it.
If I plug second monitor into first GPU, then it gets workspaces as expected.
I asked on #i3 freenode channel about this behaviour, but only advice I got was to try Xinerama.
Xorg with Xinerama option goes into deadlock. This is strace log I got: https://pastebin.com/KsUMEgWx .
I have not added xinerama USE flag, will try adding it now and reemerging packages.
Edit:
xinerama USE flag does not seem to affect any packages that might relate to this problem.
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$ sudo emerge --ask --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --update @world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] x11-misc/dmenu-4.6 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl2-2.0.4 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.15-r9 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] app-text/hunspell-1.3.3 L10N="en*"
[ebuild R ] app-office/libreoffice-l10n-5.2.3.3 L10N="en*"
[ebuild R ] net-irc/weechat-1.4-r1 USE="-spell*"
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.11 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.6-r4 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/wine-2.0 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] media-video/mpv-0.18.0-r1 USE="xinerama*"
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31-r1 USE="xinerama*"
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Kresp
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:40 am Post subject: |
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Even with xinerama flag xorg just hangs when Xinerama option is enabled.
I looked at i3 log at it seems to just use whatever randr provides it with, and by default it only works on :1.0.
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$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x47 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
$ xrandr --listproviders -d :1.0
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x47 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
$ xrandr --listproviders -d :1.1
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x94 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
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It's possible to invoke i3 on :1.1, but then it's separate instance. You can not transfer windows between those two running on different DISPLAY's, and keeping focus consistent between them is just impossible. |
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