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Raimundo

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Registered: 2013-10-21

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[SOLVED] Proprietary Nvidia and Intel simultaneously

Hi,

As you all might know, now Intel ships most processor models with integrated graphics. I bought one of these recently and also have an nvidia 550Ti. I want to have multiseat. In fact I already do but quite in a messy way, especially because it's incompatible with systemd which forces you to have 1 X server per seat, so I have to manually boot everything. So I thought I could start one X server on the Nvidia, and another on the intel graphics. The problems is this:

$ sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: mesa-libgl and nvidia-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove nvidia-libgl? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected

My current setup uses only the Nvidia hardware, and 1 X server, but the second seat has some small issues.
Is there any way to make both opengl's coexist? Note that I only need this on a user basis.
I searched for this but only found an old (2009) unansweared thread.

Thanks in advance,
  Raimundo

Last edited by Raimundo (2014-03-03 21:06:09)

stqn

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Re: [SOLVED] Proprietary Nvidia and Intel simultaneously

You might be interested in the second half of this post on phoronix.

Raimundo

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Registered: 2013-10-21

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Proprietary Nvidia and Intel simultaneously

That is interesting! But I've managed to solve my problem with bumblebee (and not using it ).

So 2 things:

1 - Enable integrated graphics card on bios... oh dear, silly me.
2 - Install bumblebee, nvidia, xf86-video-intel

I'm not sure if I have glx in the intel card, but at least I've got 2 X servers, and youtube doesn't hog CPU, so this is good enough for my needs!

Last edited by Raimundo (2014-03-03 21:07:47)