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Berix

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Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 8

Concurrent nvidia & intel graphics drivers

Hello,

I'm attempting to run a 3-monitor system in Arch using the following setup:

Card 1: Nvidia Geforce GTS-450 (PCI-Express)
- Monitor 1 (DVI)
- Monitor 2 (DVI)
Card 2: Intel HD Graphics 4000 (onboard on my Asrock Z77 Extreme4 board)
- Monitor 3 (DVI)

Now, the problem I'm running into is getting the graphics drivers installed.  I can't get the nvidia drivers and the intel drivers installed at the same time, because there is a conflict between mesa-libgl and nvidia-libgl

# pacman -Si nvidia | grep Depends
Depends On     : linux>=3.10  linux<3.11  nvidia-libgl  nvidia-utils=325.15

# pacman -Si intel-dri | grep Depends
Depends On     : mesa-libgl=9.1.6

Packages 'nvidia-libgl' and 'mesa-libgl' both provide 'libgl' and can't exist at the same time.

I've done some searching but I can't seem to find anything -- I did actually try downloading the nvidia drivers straight from nvidia.  That actually worked, I was able to keep the intel driver installed and have the nvidia drivers installed at the same time.  The thing is... I don't really know what problems could arise from running it like that.  Maybe nothing?  I'm not sure.

Also -- I'm not trying to use bumblebee -- this is just a desktop PC with 3 monitors.

Does anyone have any advice for me or something that I should try?