On 08/02/12 13:53, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Willie Matthews > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia >> video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built >> onto the board. >> >> Problem is I want to use the nVidia driver with my 8400 GS but when I do >> try to use it, it will just lock up the entire computer. Sometime I can >> ssh in and sometimes I can't. I don't have compiz or anything like that. >> I am using the xfce compositor. >> >> While I do get to use the card for about 30 seconds to a minute, I can't >> open the nVidia X Server Settings panel, display panel nor anything that >> has to do with flash in chrome. >> >> A couple of the things that I have noticed about the Xorg Log is that >> the 8400 GS is reported as having 512mb or video memory when I know it >> is only 256. The 6150 is reported as having 256 and I am not sure how >> much that one is using. I have a feeling it is shared. >> >> When I am using the 6150 LE and I have the 8400 GS in also. The nVidia X >> Server Setting also says the same amounts of video memory. >> >> I haven been using this install of Gentoo for years now. The only thing >> that has changed in that time that has to do with Video Cards is Cuda. I >> use to use it a little for experiments. All in all the 6150 doesn't >> support Cuda and the 8400 GS does. >> >> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. >> >> -- >> >> Willie Matthews >> [email protected] >> >> > Hi Willie, > Sorry for the problems. I use two NVidia cards with nvidia-drivers > and don't have any stability problems. My cards are the GTX465 & a > 8400GS which are both CUDA-based. There are some very real OpenGL > issues with this setup, as well as all the Flash on NVidia problems, > but no stability problems. > > As for your setup, if I was to guess I'd start wondering if the > NVidia driver supports two cards where one is CUDA-based and the other > isn't. I tried Googling for that with no real results. > > Note: I do use an xorg.conf file on my system, as well as the > newest drivers. You didn't provide much technical info about your > setup so maybe that could be posted? > > nvidia-smi reports the correct amount of memory on my two cards. > > Good luck, > Mark > Hey Mark,
What technical information would you like me to post? I am not to good with troubleshooting. Driver Version is x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-302.17:0 -- Willie Matthews [email protected]
