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Hi,
I have successfully installed archlinux on a usb drive.
It works on every computer with ati or intel graphics card but when I know want to install the nvidia driver it complains about a dependencie of the ati and intel one.
So I have the choice between nvdia or intel and ati. Is there a way to make the usb stick work on ati, intel and nvidia?
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Nope. What you can do is use the nouveau driver for nvidia cards. Nouveau, intel and ati can coexist.
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I tried the nouveau coexisting with ati and intel cards using a nvdia 8200 but I only got an ugly output with much errors. Is this normal?
How does as example ubuntu solve this issue?
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How does as example ubuntu solve this issue?
You might want to ask them on their forum :-)
There were similar threads in the past but I don't think any of them was compiled into the wiki so you have to search the forums a bit - still not sure if it's entirely possible.
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How does as example ubuntu solve this issue?
They don't. They use nouveau. You can tell the installer to install the nvidia driver from their "restricted" repository, but you do so at the expense of the intel and ati drivers, just like in Arch.
There's one thing... if you don't care about 3d acceleration, you can simply force-uninstall libgl, intel-dri, ati-dri. Then you can have nvdia, intel and ati at the same time. But 3d accel will only work on nvidia, of course.
Gentoo is (I think) the only one with a full solution - their eselect mechanism. Their mesa and nvidia-drivers ebuilds install GL libs in different places, so they don't conflict. Then eselect switches around some symlinks and plays with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. You still have to manually use eselect ("eselect opengl set nvidia" or "eselect opengl set xorg-x11"), but at least you can have all packages installed at the same time.
Last edited by Gusar (2012-01-18 15:55:50)
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