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Wasmasjien

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Registered: 2014-01-02

Posts: 5

Dual monitors: Integrated graphics and nvidia GPU

I have one monitor connected to my Nvidia graphics card, the other one to my integrated graphics (Intel). X only starts on the monitor connected to my Nvidia GPU. The one connected to my integrated graphics only has a tty on it.

I tried installing intel-dri but I can't because mesa-libgl is in conflict with nvidia-libgl. This is the output.

user@arch> sudo pacman -S intel-dri xf86-video-intel
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: mesa-libgl and nvidia-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove nvidia-libgl? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nvidia: requires nvidia-libgl

Both are listed in lspci: (The integrated graphics are not listed as VGA, is that normal?)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] (rev a1)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)

edit: This is my xrandr, if that helps.

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+   59.9     50.0  
   1680x1050      60.0  
   1600x900       60.0  
   1440x900       59.9  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1280x800       59.8  
   1280x720       60.0     59.9     50.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.0     70.1     60.0  
   800x600        75.0     72.2     60.3     56.2  
   720x576        50.0  
   720x480        59.9  
   640x480        75.0     72.8     59.9  
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Is there a way to get X working on both monitors?

Last edited by Wasmasjien (2014-01-19 00:25:12)

jjshinobi

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 97

Re: Dual monitors: Integrated graphics and nvidia GPU

Take a look at these bumblebee:
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bu … itor-setup
or:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … e_monitors

Last edited by jjshinobi (2014-01-19 04:55:57)

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Wasmasjien

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Registered: 2014-01-02

Posts: 5

Re: Dual monitors: Integrated graphics and nvidia GPU

I tried that, but it didn't work. It either did nothing or messed up X. The topic can be closed, I just bought a DVI to VGA to use both monitors on my dedicated card. Hope it works.