xorg.conf multiple graphics cards

abourke · 07-24-2011, 06:53 PM

Hi,

Is it possible to add more than one graphic device driver to xorg.conf and it will load automatically? It is important to autodetect because I am using the configuraiton read only. This is because it's a custom LIVE CD...

This is what I currently have, and it works!

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 270.41.06  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-07.nvidia.com)  Mon Apr 18 15:15:12 PDT 2011


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Problem is if I put my Live CD in my brothers machine, it fails to load because it uses a Radeon driver!

I can preinstall the ati packages I need, so all i need to know is how do I make it work?

adamk75 · 07-24-2011, 07:51 PM

It will take a lot of work to get this working with proprietary drivers. Both the catalyst driver from AMD and the NVIDIA driver have their own GLX modules and their own libGL.so libraries. Not only will you need to figure out how to get Xorg to load both 2D drivers (which shouldn't be too hard... Simply having two Device sections will probably be enough), but you will also need to figure out how to get Xorg to load the correct GLX module and for applications to link against the correct GL library.

Adam