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graphics drivers and multiple monitors #10

Open nuclearsandwich opened 8 years ago

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

I've got nouveau and intel drivers installed and truth be told I don't have the first idea which is being used. xrandr only shows eDP1 and VIRTUAL1 monitors so I dunno what's up with that. I've got HDMI, DisplayPort and the DisplayPort built into Thunderbolt.

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

Also want to figure out early mode KMS

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

Looking at using PRIME.

> lspci | grep NVIDIA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] (rev a2)
> xrandr --list-providers
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x7c cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 2 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
Provider 1: id: 0x46 cap: 0x3, Source Output, Sink Output crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

According to the wikipedia article on codenames, The Quadro M2000M in this machine is codename G206 but the codename in lspci is GM107GLM which seems more likely to be correct. In either case, the card family is listed as WIP on the feature matrix so it looks like we're all Intel for now.

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

Since nouveau does not yet support this card, I'm going to try getting the nvidia proprietary drivers working..

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

The nvidia driver failed to load because it installs from apt into /usr/lib/nvidia I had to manually symlink it into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ in order for it to load properly and even then loading it via xorg.conf wasn't sufficient for it to be used as it was unloaded later.

nuclearsandwich commented 7 years ago

Spending another Sunday playing with this a bit.

nuclearsandwich commented 7 years ago

While this post doesn't have a Solved tag, they're farther along than I am.