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techdude300

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Registered: 2012-04-09

Posts: 4

Nvidia and ATI Together

I have a GeForce GTX 550 Ti as my primary graphics card, currently all set up and running. I recently decided to try and add an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850. I want to use the Nvidia card for all my gaming/graphics/etc and the ATI solely to do OpenCL stuff in (like Bitcoin mining). However, the ATI card isn't being recognized as an OpenCL card by the program I'm using, and if I understand this correctly it's because I haven't installed the proper drivers for it. However, just about every driver package I can find for it conflicts with the currently installed nvidia drivers.

So my question is this: If possible, how can I use my ATI card for OpenCL stuff while still keeping my Nvidia for normal everyday graphics use? (Sorry if I put this thread in the wrong place!)

vwyodajl

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Registered: 2012-01-21

Posts: 183

Re: Nvidia and ATI Together

I could be wrong but couldnt you just make a PKGBUILD of the driver you want to install by copying the one in abs and remove the conflicting nvidia listing in it, then build and install the ATI driver? Not sure if it would actually be that simple of fix but would be worth giving a shot.
HTH