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#1 2009-01-26 18:49:58
- playdafunkimuzic
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Dual monitors, two nvidia cards one agp one pci
I have an agp nvidia gefroce fx 5200 and i'm waiting on a monitor that uses the DVI port. In the mean time, I installed a pci nvidia tnt riva 64 card. Is it possible to run both of these at the same time, or will there be nvidia driver conflicts?
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#2 2009-01-27 00:12:14
- Ruckus
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Re: Dual monitors, two nvidia cards one agp one pci
You will probably run into driver conflicts, as the newer card will use a differant driver than the older. You will probably have to use the newest nvidia driver for the new card, and be stuck using vesa on the older card.
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#3 2009-01-27 00:39:08
- Ranguvar
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Re: Dual monitors, two nvidia cards one agp one pci
Or the old driver for both, or perhaps you can use the nv (or maybe nouveau) driver on the TNT2 - that would definitely be better than VESA. Try emailing NVIDIA and see if they support using two drivers at once. Arch package team may be able to help too.
Wait... *brainstorming*... run two X servers, each with their own card and driver?
Sorry, I have no dual-head experience 
@Ruckus: Actually the GeForce FX series is obsolete now too, you need the nvidia-177xx drivers for them.
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#4 2009-01-27 01:27:23
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Re: Dual monitors, two nvidia cards one agp one pci
Or the old driver for both, or perhaps you can use the nv (or maybe nouveau) driver on the TNT2 - that would definitely be better than VESA. Try emailing NVIDIA and see if they support using two drivers at once. Arch package team may be able to help too.
Wait... *brainstorming*... run two X servers, each with their own card and driver?
Sorry, I have no dual-head experience@Ruckus: Actually the GeForce FX series is obsolete now too, you need the nvidia-177xx drivers for them.
I thought he had a newer card, I am using two GeForce's in my computer with the old driver, with the new xorg update I had to switch over to the nv driver.
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