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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 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 430] (rev a1) |
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> 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF110 [GeForce 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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Probably need to see your xorg.conf file. I suspect it comes down to |
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how the two GPUs are identified there, and how the server layout is |
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done. |
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One heads up though about the directions you're going. It might |
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matter. It might not. In my case I have a GTX465 as my main card |
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driving two monitors, and then an 8400 GS driving the 3rd monitor. |
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OpenGL doesn't work at all on the 3rd monitor. I think the way that |
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stuff works is that it on;y works on the first card, with a possible |
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exception being that if you use two identical cards (which neither you |
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or I seem to be doing) then _maybe_ it will work on both. |
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Anyway, as I know nothing about your Blender stuff, if it requires |
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OpenGL you might be in for some additional work to get past this |
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issue. I haven't figured it out here but it hasn't been high priority. |
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I mostly just use the 3rd monitor for a NetFlix VM. |
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Good luck, |
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Mark |
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