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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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<chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> skribis: |
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>> 2) Drop nvidia-drivers and try nouveau. May be a reasonable video |
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>> direction - my screen-based video/graphics needs are not high - |
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>> however I have long terms needs of accessing the GPU as a compute |
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>> engine in R so I _think_ I have to stick with nvidia-drivers to do |
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>> that. Maybe not but I don't know at this time and I could deal with |
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>> that later. (I know Duncan's vote, if he's reading, goes here.) :-) |
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> I’ve had real trouble with nouveau graphics, not considering cuda |
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> computing issues, and so have resigned myself to nvidia’s fetters for |
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> the while. I’d switch graphics cards to be freer but, like fictional |
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> Jerry Seinfeld’s nana, I’m ‘on a very fixed income’. :) |
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She's a great lady. Gotta luv her, and you're advice also. :-) |
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One thing I hate about my current setup is that with two different |
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nvidia cards OpenGL only works on the 2 screens attached to the |
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GTX465. No video apps work on the 3rd display, and the KDE OpenGL |
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features like (from memory - it's been so loon) Alt-F8, or whatever it |
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was that allows me to see all 6 desktops at once, don't work at all. |
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My friends machine which has 2 8400's work perfectly in that respect. |
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Finding a new card isn't out of the question. I'd prefer to find a |
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single card that drove 4 monitors, like maybe one or two of the |
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Quadro's do, but it's money and risk as I don't know of any Gentoo |
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User types using those cards. |
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I suspect I can disassociate the CUDA stuff if I have to. I don't have |
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to tell X11 that the 465 is in the machine, and I have 3 PCI Express |
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slots so I could potentially have 2 VGAs and 1 CUDA. (I think...) |
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Thanks for the inputs. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |