Have both nividia and ati drivers?

burton247 · 2010-02-20 18:35:31

I have had a look around but i cannot find a way to do so.

I am installing arch onto my usb stick and want to run it from both my laptop and desktop, unfortunately my laptop has an ati card and desktop has nvidia

i did

 pacman -S nvidia

and when i try to

 pacman -S xf86-video-ati

It wants to remove nvidia-utils. Anyone got a solution?

112percent · 2010-02-20 21:25:16

Can you try with the force option?

pacman -Sf xf86-video-ati

PirateJonno · 2010-02-20 23:59:30

if all else fails, you could keep the packages cached somewhere, boot to a tty and make a script to install the one you want, start X and so on

ozar · 2010-02-21 00:06:52

Don't know that it would work, but if none of the above works, I wonder if you could setup a dual-boot system on the USB drive and choose between the ATI system and the nVidia system at boot time? You could probably share a /home folder or partition between the two systems.

burton247 · 2010-02-21 16:22:28

Cheers, I'll look into these soon, had enough trouble getting X to run on just the one card so I'll put this on hold for the moment.

Thanks for your suggestions though

some-guy94 · 2010-02-21 17:50:42

The drivers can't coexist because they have conflicting files, you could install them to a different prefix (/opt/nvidia, /opt/fglrx) and then have an rc.d daemon that symlinks the right driver into place and generates an xorg.conf.

sand_man · 2010-02-21 22:22:21

How do live distros detect the correct driver to use?

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-20 18:35:31

Have both nividia and ati drivers?

#2 2010-02-20 21:25:16

Re: Have both nividia and ati drivers?

#3 2010-02-20 23:59:30

Re: Have both nividia and ati drivers?

#4 2010-02-21 00:06:52

Re: Have both nividia and ati drivers?

#5 2010-02-21 16:22:28

Re: Have both nividia and ati drivers?

#6 2010-02-21 17:50:42

Re: Have both nividia and ati drivers?

#7 2010-02-21 22:22:21

Re: Have both nividia and ati drivers?

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