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

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:32:43PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and trying to get an ATI card and NVIDIA card 
> to work simultaneously.  I am hoping to drive three monitors between the 
> two (2 on the NVIDIA, one on the ATI).
> 
> Has anyone had any luck with this?

You may well be able to do it.

See 11.18 in http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
and 
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

You are probably not going to be able to do it using either
ATI or NVidia's proprietary X drivers.

-dsr-

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