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Not an answer, but my little knowledge on GPU processing: |
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AFAIK, CUDA or OpenCL uses idle resources of the GPU, so I guess that you |
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are safe even if you don't know (or have ways of) forcing one of them to |
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X11. |
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Good luck and happy new year |
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Francisco |
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:12 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Happy new year! :) |
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> ...before I make my GENTOO box unaccessible to me ... ;) |
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> For rendering with blenders new Cycles GPU based renderer |
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> I want to setup my box as follows: |
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> Rendering should be done with the GTX 560 Ti nvidia card and |
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> the "normal" desktop (aka X11) should be handled via the |
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> GT 430 nvidia card. |
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> Both cards are already inserted into the box and seem to be |
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> recognized since lspci reports: |
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> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT |
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> 430] (rev a1) |
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> 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF110 [GeForce |
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> GTX 560 Ti] (rev a1) |
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> Nvidia-setting also reports both cards the 560 Ti one is recognized as |
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> GPU0 the other one as GPU1. |
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> Currently X11 uses the GTX560Ti and the GT430 is "idle" (has neither |
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> a "display-" nor "rendering-job"). |
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> How can I move the "display-job" to the GT430 ? How can I urge X11 to |
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> exclusively use the GT430 for its purposes? |
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> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you |
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and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have |
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one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." |
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- George Bernard Shaw |