On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:31:55 > From: Jack <ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: > >On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: > >>Why do you need two graphics cards? I've been driving two monitors off each > >>of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, from > >>simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra power connector. > > > >Because I'm not driving two monitors. I'm running a two-user system. AIUI, > >each session needs its own graphics card (which could drive two monitors for > >that user). > > > Now that would be an interesting project - a single instance of X, but split > between two different users, each on a separate monitor. I agree it's not > feasible now, as xorg runs as the owning user. I would expect Wayland has the > same restriction. Actually, I would find it interesting to have a separate > session on each monitor just in plain text mode. > > Was the second graphics card you tried using also PCIE? If so, I wonder if > you might get it to work with a PCI card as the second graphics card. >
I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility I don't know what to do to clear this error. --
