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Zebbeman
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 11:16 pm Post subject: [solved] intel and nvidia cards working together? |
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I want to have 3 monitors (2 monitors and 1 TV) using the integrated intel card and a pci-x nvidia G210 graphics card. I thought I did this long time ago, but I cannot make it work.
I have 2 DVI on the integrated intel card and a TV connected to the HDMI of the nvidia card. The nvidia card is recognized, using the nouveau driver, but the TV is somehow not discovered. I tried using the DVI and the VGA connector of the nvidia card, with a monitor, to see if it was a HDMI thing, but noting. I can, however, use the nvidia only or the intel only with 2 monitors, including the TV as one of them.
lspci says:
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
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I also tried using the proprietary nvidia-drivers but that did not make me happy. I also tried changing which card to be default in the bios but it did not affect X.
Does anyone know if it is possible to do what I am trying to do?
I want them to be in the same screen, meaning, moving windows between monitors.
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chithanh
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 12:12 am Post subject: |
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When using the nouveau driver, look at the output of:
| Code: | | $ xrandr --listproviders |
It should show you both the intel and the nouveau graphics. You can then add the nouveau graphics as provider for intel, after which the monitor should appear in xrandr output.
Do note that you need a compositing window manager for this to work properly. |
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Zebbeman
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you very much, the third monitor came alive!
There is an annoying shadow/square behind the cursor. Any ideas about that?
Can I somehow move this configuration to Xorg?
If anyone else is playing with this - I did the:
| Code: | | $ xrandr --listproviders |
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$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x9e cap: 0x7, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:nouveau
Provider 1: id: 0x47 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 5 associated providers: 1 name:Intel
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and then:
| Code: | | $ xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0 |
After that, the TV was visible to xrandr |
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chithanh
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Zebbeman wrote: | | There is an annoying shadow/square behind the cursor. Any ideas about that? |
This could be a bug in xorg-server or one of the x11-drivers packages. Try updating them to the latest unstable version, if you are not already running that. Besides that, you could try disabling HWCursor (I think only nouveau supports this).
| Zebbeman wrote: | | Can I somehow move this configuration to Xorg? |
I think not, you need to run the xrandr commands at every X server start. |
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Zebbeman
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Thanks again!
I cannot add device options to xorg.conf.d/. If I do, the second card is no longer recognized by xrandr.
The shadow/square of the cursor only appears when I use both cards.
Is there any other way I can set HWCursor to false? |
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Zebbeman
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 10:41 am Post subject: |
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I found a solution for all my problems 
At http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop/ there is an Xorg example that works!
Thank you, chithanh, for you help!
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
Screen 1 "Screen1" Above "Screen0"
Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nouveau"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "ZaphodHeads" "DVI-I-1"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nouveau"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "ZaphodHeads" "HDMI-3"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device2"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "ZaphodHeads" "HDMI1"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Device2"
EndSection
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