On 15/10/2020 17:31, Jack wrote:
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 haven't done it yet, it's the new system I'm building. And it's going
to be an interesting experience :-)
But from everything I've found, it seems like there's no problem binding
one instance of X to one card/keyboard/mouse, and a different instance
to the other card/keyboard/mouse (or Wayland).
Cheers,
Wol
