From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp4rb-0005V3-4T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:22:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4691E0851; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD939E07E0 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werb10 with SMTP id b10so1821370wer.40 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:21:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=nLWokTtgYAw38g5p47bXdrkLKL+TJkY628Fn1RlQj0E=; b=dh5ErCKYLKG/OrQ3xUbXMKTCyjFhRu/erUdOpS9ZW/dz1Y/ze3yNvIkR8/ZSAlaE1G UvkZ1Yx0FqHQplSNNh7pmT+/hMVVSCeN1/WBoZbuaNezYvYf3yZnzEVJItUr6stYr6dy 2+dJ6CWxWCOmk46ZyFhz0o7MsbJ4Sro2HEqZQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.136.168 with SMTP id w40mr2646771wei.37.1327267267030; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:21:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.160.73 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:21:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120122225237.6474b7a8@khamul.example.con> References: <4F1C504D.6010105@gmail.com> <20120122225237.6474b7a8@khamul.example.con> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:21:06 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 3a804f42-f726-4efd-bb27-c621ad29804b X-Archives-Hash: 5bf3f15ed0f04f7f7281656f1fb8d644 On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:18:17 -0800 > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On my setup I use a GTX465 for screen 0 & 1 but have an NVidia 8400GS >> for screen 2. On this system I only see the gears on screen 0 & 1. On >> screen 2 I see just a black box and the FPS count skyrockets as the >> CPU/GPU aren't really doing anything so it goes through the loop very >> fast. Also, on this system the Ctrl-F8 thing mouse to the upper left >> corner don't work at all. >> >> I've assumed that's because I'm using two different NVidia cards. >> >> - Mark >> > > The docs for the nVidia driver go into this in quite some detail, and > it's related to how the nVidia hardware is built plus how the nVidia > software works plus how Xinerama works. Basically, not all combinations > are supported, especially when you have different "screens" (that's the > nVidia concept of a screen, not the X concept) with different > resolutions on different GPUs. Or something like that, but I don;t have > the docs to have anymore since my last 8600M went to visit the silicon > daddy in the sky > > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com > > Thanks Alan. I've looked at those docs in days long past myself, but never really needed this sort of info. I'll go back and check them out again. Cheers, Mark