ATI and NVIDIA under Ubuntu (or any distro for that matter..)

Dan Ritter dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 1 17:43:29 EDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:34:48PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:22:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > You are probably not going to be able to do it using either
> > ATI or NVidia's proprietary X drivers.
> 
> Why do you say this?  I think it's probably true that you can't make
> them all use the same display -- you certainly can't make the ATI card
> use NVidia's TwinView, for example -- but at the very least, they should
> both work by creating separate X displays, AFAIK.

Because both want to insert kernel modules that are unlikely to
get along with each other.

-dsr-



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