On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Barry Schwartz <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> skribis: >> 2) Drop nvidia-drivers and try nouveau. May be a reasonable video >> direction - my screen-based video/graphics needs are not high - >> however I have long terms needs of accessing the GPU as a compute >> engine in R so I _think_ I have to stick with nvidia-drivers to do >> that. Maybe not but I don't know at this time and I could deal with >> that later. (I know Duncan's vote, if he's reading, goes here.) :-) > > I’ve had real trouble with nouveau graphics, not considering cuda > computing issues, and so have resigned myself to nvidia’s fetters for > the while. I’d switch graphics cards to be freer but, like fictional > Jerry Seinfeld’s nana, I’m ‘on a very fixed income’. :)
She's a great lady. Gotta luv her, and you're advice also. :-) One thing I hate about my current setup is that with two different nvidia cards OpenGL only works on the 2 screens attached to the GTX465. No video apps work on the 3rd display, and the KDE OpenGL features like (from memory - it's been so loon) Alt-F8, or whatever it was that allows me to see all 6 desktops at once, don't work at all. My friends machine which has 2 8400's work perfectly in that respect. Finding a new card isn't out of the question. I'd prefer to find a single card that drove 4 monitors, like maybe one or two of the Quadro's do, but it's money and risk as I don't know of any Gentoo User types using those cards. I suspect I can disassociate the CUDA stuff if I have to. I don't have to tell X11 that the 465 is in the machine, and I have 3 PCI Express slots so I could potentially have 2 VGAs and 1 CUDA. (I think...) Thanks for the inputs. Cheers, Mark
