On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:18:17 -0800 > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> >> On my setup I use a GTX465 for screen 0 & 1 but have an NVidia 8400GS >> for screen 2. On this system I only see the gears on screen 0 & 1. On >> screen 2 I see just a black box and the FPS count skyrockets as the >> CPU/GPU aren't really doing anything so it goes through the loop very >> fast. Also, on this system the Ctrl-F8 thing mouse to the upper left >> corner don't work at all. >> >> I've assumed that's because I'm using two different NVidia cards. >> >> - Mark >> > > The docs for the nVidia driver go into this in quite some detail, and > it's related to how the nVidia hardware is built plus how the nVidia > software works plus how Xinerama works. Basically, not all combinations > are supported, especially when you have different "screens" (that's the > nVidia concept of a screen, not the X concept) with different > resolutions on different GPUs. Or something like that, but I don;t have > the docs to have anymore since my last 8600M went to visit the silicon > daddy in the sky > > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >
Thanks Alan. I've looked at those docs in days long past myself, but never really needed this sort of info. I'll go back and check them out again. Cheers, Mark
