Re: two graphics cards and two monitors
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> I have done the above: removed xorg.conf and placed a copy of the log
> file at:
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/tmp/xorglog.txt
Perfect.
> The output of xrandr is:
>
> $ xrandr --listproviders
> Providers: number : 2
> Provider 0: id: 0xc3 cap: 0x7, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 2 associated providers: 0 name:nouveau
> Provider 1: id: 0x64 cap: 0x7, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:nouveau
Awesome; X is seeing and reporting both cards, and then have Source/Sink
output support.
> but only two monitors are found/configured.
I *think* you should be able to use Reverse PRIME if you do the
following:
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0;
and then xrandr --query; should show the other source.
[The last time I did this setup, I was using multiple displays to do the
multiple monitor setup.]
> > In theory, you should also be using KML, which should configure all
> > of the outputs fairly early in boot as well.
>
> Any pointers on how to do this would be welcome.
Assuming you aren't setting any kernel options, it should be the default now.
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