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Malvineous

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2011-02-03

Posts: 193

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Intel and nVidia at the same time, with OpenGL

Hi all,

I'd like to set up a multi-seat Xorg config, with the onboard Intel video powering three monitors connected to that card, and an nVidia card powering two monitors connected to it.

This seems straightforward enough to configure in the Xorg config which I have done, but when the time comes to install the "nvidia" package, it conflicts with the Intel driver.  Specifically I can't have mesa-libgl (Intel) and nvidia-libgl installed at the same time.

I guess this is fair enough as they both want to become the default GL driver, but in my case the actual GL driver will depend on which seat is being used - sitting at the Intel monitors the GL driver should be Intel, and sitting at the nVidia monitors it should be the nvidia GL driver.

Is there a way to install both drivers at the same time, and specify which libGL to use by e.g. changing the library search path?

I have looked at Bumblebee but it seems aimed at duplicating displays across to the other video card, whereas I want the displays to appear on directly attached hardware.

float

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Registered: 2012-10-05

Posts: 23

Re: Intel and nVidia at the same time, with OpenGL

Short answer: No.
Long answer: Arch wiki NVIDIA (replace nouveau with the intel driver package).
They do not work at the same time, however.