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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Willie Matthews |
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<matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello everyone, |
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> I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia |
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> video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built |
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> onto the board. |
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> Problem is I want to use the nVidia driver with my 8400 GS but when I do |
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> try to use it, it will just lock up the entire computer. Sometime I can |
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> ssh in and sometimes I can't. I don't have compiz or anything like that. |
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> I am using the xfce compositor. |
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> While I do get to use the card for about 30 seconds to a minute, I can't |
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> open the nVidia X Server Settings panel, display panel nor anything that |
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> has to do with flash in chrome. |
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> A couple of the things that I have noticed about the Xorg Log is that |
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> the 8400 GS is reported as having 512mb or video memory when I know it |
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> is only 256. The 6150 is reported as having 256 and I am not sure how |
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> much that one is using. I have a feeling it is shared. |
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> When I am using the 6150 LE and I have the 8400 GS in also. The nVidia X |
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> Server Setting also says the same amounts of video memory. |
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> I haven been using this install of Gentoo for years now. The only thing |
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> that has changed in that time that has to do with Video Cards is Cuda. I |
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> use to use it a little for experiments. All in all the 6150 doesn't |
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> support Cuda and the 8400 GS does. |
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> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. |
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> -- |
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> Willie Matthews |
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> matthews.willie@×××××.com |
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Hi Willie, |
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Sorry for the problems. I use two NVidia cards with nvidia-drivers |
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and don't have any stability problems. My cards are the GTX465 & a |
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8400GS which are both CUDA-based. There are some very real OpenGL |
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issues with this setup, as well as all the Flash on NVidia problems, |
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but no stability problems. |
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As for your setup, if I was to guess I'd start wondering if the |
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NVidia driver supports two cards where one is CUDA-based and the other |
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isn't. I tried Googling for that with no real results. |
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Note: I do use an xorg.conf file on my system, as well as the |
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newest drivers. You didn't provide much technical info about your |
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setup so maybe that could be posted? |
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nvidia-smi reports the correct amount of memory on my two cards. |
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Good luck, |
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Mark |
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