On Nov 25, 2015 11:12 PM, "Mauro Condarelli" <mc5686@mclink.it> wrote:
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> Il 25/11/2015 21:28, Lisi Reisz ha scritto:
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>> On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:14:04 Mauro Condarelli wrote:
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>>> Pretty Please,
>>> tell me this isn't true:
>>> The only sensible answer I got from debian list boils down to: "use
>>> proprietary driver".
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>>> This is truly sad, especially since I *know* Linux Mint (which is a debian
>>> derivative, through ubuntu parentage) does indeed work out-of-the-box with
>>> *no* configuration at all.
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>> Presumably with a proprietary driver. Mint makes no claims to be entirely
>> Free.
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> You should (!) not presume too much.
> I am not used to speak without checking.
> Linux Mint uses nouveau for NVidia.
> If You would have bothered checking lsmod I sent a few days ago you would have known.
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> Regards
> Mauro
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>> Lisi
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>>> A desolate
>>> Mauro
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>>> Il 23/11/2015 14:40, Ric Moore ha scritto:
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>>>> On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote:
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>>>>> Thanks Ric,
>>>>> care to share details on how You managed such a marvel?
>>>>> How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside
>>>>> the CPU chip)? From BIOS?
>>>>> What other configuration did You do?
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>>>> I just disabled the video feature in the bios. Then I loaded the nvidia
>>>> driver. Then I used nvidia-settings to use xinerama and to configure the
>>>> order of the monitors. When you "save to X configuration file", save it
>>>> in your home directory as you are "user" and not able to save directly to
>>>> /etc/X11. Open a terminal and "sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11" to put it
>>>> there. If you have monitors of differing size, the X Server Display
>>>> Configuration will allow you to play tricks, like panning to a smaller
>>>> screen to be bigger through scrolling. Slick! Ric
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Hello there,
Maybe it is as you said earlier, an option in the kernel. Namely, the no multicard support you mentioned earlier, is it possible that was comming from the kernel itself or was it noveau?