Yes, there are ways to "spoof" monitors on nvidia cards. I have used two of them,
a. Get an EDID file of a display device and use that in the config file (see attached file xorg-forced-monitor-EDID.conf for an example). b. Use a modeline (see attached file xorg-forced-monitor-modeline.conf for an example). The config files use more options than necessary - but that's because they are auto-generated. For documentation on the options, refer to /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt HTH -- Shree ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul McIntosh Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:16 AM To: 'Paul Edwards'; 'paraview' Subject: Re: [Paraview] Advice on graphics cards Hi Paul, I think you are stuck with eitther a Tesla or Quadro on a cluster. This is due to the ability to configure those cards to work without a display (see the release notes for the latest drivers though). I'd be interested to hear otherwise as we have a few GTX280 nodes that are currently just used for CUDA. Maybe there is a way to "spoof" a monitor another way? Cheers, Paul ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Edwards Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2010 12:43 AM To: paraview Subject: [Paraview] Advice on graphics cards Hi, Can anyone recommend a graphics cards to use for a linux cluster running ParaView? And, does anyone know how a GeForce card compares to a Quadro of a similar spec? Thanks in advance, Paul
xorg-forced-monitor-EDID.conf
Description: xorg-forced-monitor-EDID.conf
xorg-forced-monitor-modeliner-EDID.conf
Description: xorg-forced-monitor-modeliner-EDID.conf
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