Hardware :: Which Video Card Is Being Used On Notebook With Two Cards?
Jul 8, 2010
I have this Asus UL30VT notebook, with two video cards, an Nvidia G210M (which apparently isn't supported by Nvidia for Linux, but I've read somewhere that it's possible to make it work) and an Intel card (I can't find the model name). On Windows, it is possible to switch between these two cards for battery saving reasons. Anyway, I don't really care about this on Linux. I would just like to make the Nvidia card work somehow.
One of my doubts is: how do I know if Linux is detecting both video cards?What I'd like to know is, how can I make sure whether Linux is correctly detecting the Nvidia card or not? Is lspci enough?And if we suppose that Linux is aware of the presence of the Nvidia card, how do I know which card it's using? Right now I can infer it's using the Intel card from the X log, but is there any other way (I don't know, any "/proc/..." files) to know?
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Feb 27, 2011
I am trying to resolve an ongoing fight involving /dev/video node assignment between 2 TV Tuner cards and a USB video camera.
Each time I reboot the three devices seem to shuffle their /dev/video assignment. i.e. what was /dev/video0 (USB camera) after a reboot magically becomes /dev/video1.
This causes all kinds of grief between my MythBackend and ZoneMinder who expect the devices to have static assignments.
how to best solve this? I did a brief search and one solution appears to be to statically assign the devices.
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Apr 6, 2011
I have a digital camcorder, an analog camcorder, and a set top dvr.
I want to get video and audio material from them onto my notebook (i.e. I don't have any PCI slots, etc. to plug a video capture card into).
My notebook runs kubuntu karmic Linux with Windows XP (in a VM).
It has USB 2.0, firewire, PCI card, and Express Card interfaces.
I am looking for any reasonable way to do this.
All three devices have composite video out and left and right audio out RCA jacks. The digital camcorder also has USB and firewire ports, but didn't come with any software (and AFAIK the software has long since become unavailable).
Plugging the digital camcorder into my notebook via USB or firewire cables didn't do much of anything in either Windows or Linux.
Awhile ago, I bought the Hauppauge USB-Live 2 video capture device (it's a smart cable that's supposed to convert from the RCA plugs to USB), but had no luck getting it to work in my XP vm and very limited results under Linux - with a lot of help from a fellow lug member.
Under Linux, I tried using polaris.
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At this point, I just want to get the job done any way I can, but since the devices are still in use, it's not a one-shot deal, so I need a solution that will continue to work. I'd prefer it in Linux (where it would also have access to more computing power), but XP would be fine too. If I need a different interface/converter, I will buy one if it's not too expensive.
Soon, I will also have access to my partner's new notebook, but haven't reconfigured it yet. When I do, it will be running kubuntu lucid with Windows 7 in a VM.
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Sep 6, 2011
I have gotten this to work on Xubuntu here: [SOLVED] Ndiswrapper? Does it work? - Ubuntu Forums.I think it would use the same software/firmware? I am using OpenSUSE 11.4 LXDE derivative.
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Jul 27, 2010
I have a problem during installation of openSuse 11.3 on my brand new notebook. It's an hp8440p with Arrandale integrated graphic controller. The initial install works then as soon as the notebook reboots to complete the install and allow me to log in for the first time, there's no video. If I shut the notebook down and boot into failsafe mode the video works. I shut down again and come back up as a normal boot and no video again.
And what's the difference between normal and failsafe?I ran glxgears and had 3d accel in failsafe..
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Jan 30, 2009
One of the first issues I struggled with after installing CentOS 5 was that my screen would not come back to me after closing my laptop lid. Note that this is in a command line interface (not GNOME). After unsuccessful searching on the web I stumbled upon this configuration file (/etc/acpi/events/video.conf):
# Configuration to turn on DPMS again on video activity, needed for some
# laptops. Disabled by default, uncomment if your laptop display stays blank
# after you close and open the lid.
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Jun 29, 2010
I would like to boot directly from an external hard disk to improve performance over my internal notebook hard disk. My notebook has no native eSata jack but a pci express card.
As my BIOS doesn't support the card on boot time so no way directly booting it.
My question is, is it possible to work around this issue by using an USB stick or similar with a boot loader like grub and if so, will this only work for Linux or Windows as well?
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Jul 5, 2009
I am looking into buying a better graphics card, most likely Nvidia, for my HP D330 DT.How do you tell if the graphics card is compatible with your machine?One more thing, is there a way to tell if my GPU is an, AGP, PCI, or PCI express without opening my computer??
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Jun 7, 2010
I've spent the past 2 days attempting to get the sound working on a Toshiba A75 notebook. Here is what i've tried so far:
remove/purge alsa and pulse audio then reinstall
set up/configure OSS
download and compile latest alsa drivers. code...
My questions are: is there anyone using this laptop on Lucid with sound? Can anyone provide a new idea how to make this work if it is compatible hardware.
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Feb 9, 2011
I'm trying to boot an SD card on a notebook that does not have BIOS support for booting from the SD slot. Using various how-to's I've figured out how to add additional SD card modules to the initrd.img file on a bootable USB drive such that I can boot Linux installed on the SD card.
However, best I can tell, it loads the kernel and initrd.img from the USB and everything else from the SD card. What I really want is to load the necessary SD modules from the USB and then chainload the SD card such that whatever kernel is on the SD card is loaded instead. Is it possible to chainload to another bootable device after the kernel (with the SD module additions) has already been loaded?
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Aug 6, 2011
I am a new user to opensuse, coming from ubuntu. I have a usb to vga external video card that allows me to plug in an external monitor to a usb port.Tritton SEE2 UV150 Looking around there is a deb file available for ubuntu and the sources are on the suse build service. Though it does not say its available for suse. So im wondering if anyone else has used one of these devices and/or knows how I can get it to work. The pages i have found related are here:
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Jul 17, 2010
I set up a Ubuntu machine using the OnBoard video, and it runs OK.
Now, I put a nVidia card in it (2009'ish 512mb), and there is no screen after the BIOS screen.
If I boot off a Live CD, everything is fine, so the card is supported.
How do I get Ubuntu to look for the new card on bootup? Do I have to reinstall? If so, will it wipe out the installed applications and data?
Code:
cd / (this gets you to root)
cd etc
sudo chmod 777 X11 (this permits changing names)
cd X11
sudo chmod 777 xorg.conf.failsafe
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Sep 6, 2010
I have 2 video cards installed, and I only have one 22" monitor (1680x1050 pixels).ATI Radeon HD 4290 Nvidia 7300 GT Silent How can I make the both video cards render OpenGL stuff at the same time? Is it even possible?
And which GPU is faster? ATI Radeon HD 4290?
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Feb 25, 2010
I have recently decided to use ATI video cards again due to poor linux support several years ago. I currently have a Radeon HD 3000 series card however I have been unable to install the fglrx driver under Debian Lenny 64. It seems that the Catalyst 10.4 driver is not compatible with the Xorg version in Lenny.
So far the NVIDIA has been very good at making drivers available for the latest linux versions. I have been running Debian Sid with an NVIDIA card with relatively few problems.Is it still best to avoid ATI graphics cards or is this just a temporary problem?
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Apr 24, 2011
I have installed a Ubuntu Server 10.10 with fluxbox as X. Everything works fine except the sound. Either speakers or with headsets, it does not work at ALL. This is some informations that could help you. I need to listen music
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Feb 23, 2010
Is it possible to run a box with 2 graphics cards in it with one card being a PCIe x16 and the other being a PCIe x1?
Unsure whether this would cause all sorts of problems with ubuntu and/or the nvidia drivers (2 quatro NVS 290's).
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May 5, 2011
I recently took my Compaq Presario 2175US notebook completely apart and resoldered the power jack so that it could be used again (after 2 years of dormancy). After successfully putting it back together (with a handful of leftover screws ) , I was able to successfully install Ubuntu 10.04 (Windows XP seemed silly at this point and I really like using Open Office). Anyway, after a couple of days looking for the wireless driver for the internal wireless, I found the answer and got that working.
Unfortunately, the video does not seem to be working other than a basic VESA configuration. The notebook has the ATI Radeon IGP 320M video chip installed. I have searched for many days (about a week) on the internet for a way to get this working, but have been unsuccessful. Although I have found many posts all over the net (here included) that list folks with similar problems, and having tried many of the "fixes", I am still unsuccessful at getting the video card to work in any more than a minimal manner (no games, no 3D of any kind...etc.)
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Mar 22, 2014
I'm having problems configuring a second video card in Debian 7.4 on GNOME. I've tried running Xorg -configure but that errors. When I run xrandr that only seems to pick up 1 screen.
Here is a section of my xorg.conf file:
Code: Select allSection "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
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The current effect is that the second screen seems to fire up and display a debian logo, and I can move the mouse pointer on to it, but I can't place any windows on there. Also, every time I log out and log back in, GNOME creates an additional instance of the menus (I now have 3 "Applications" and 3 "Places"). It sort of suggests that it is trying to use multiple monitors, but getting it wrong.
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Mar 7, 2010
I installed fedora 12.
I have 2 ATI cards that I used to use on windows to run 4 monitors. A recurring problem has been to get them detected in linux. Only my secondary card is picked up linux. When I manage the displays it detects the 2 monitors connected that card.
What are the specific steps I should take to get the second card detected? Supposedly there is a tool system-config-xfree. I don't have it, yum can't find it.
Also I heard it has something to do with editing some xorg.conf file or something to that effect. I have absolutely no idea how to find the "bus id" of my card, or lookup the horizontal refresh rates, etc..
I would probably have no problem following the documentation & editing the file if I knew a good way to find these values.
Someone also suggested installing linux twice and saving the xorg.conf it generates each time (with different card each time) and then merging the two by hand. That is like killing a fly with a hammer though, when I do this again and again in the future It'd be nice to not have to take twice as long.
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Apr 27, 2010
In Ubuntu Lucid Lynx RC, I got NVidia's TwinView to work with 2 monitors in a single video card. But when I use the same monitors but split them between the video cards I can't make TwinView work and it starts a X server for each monitor. I want the same effect I had with one video card.
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Jul 12, 2010
I was just wondering if is an easy way to configure three monitors run across two video cards (Nvidia Leadtek GTS250 PCI-E 2.0 1G 2DVI ) 2 on one, 1 on the other under the one xserver? I tried to get it going using the Nvidia driver package with no luck - 2 monitors seemed to be simple to configure using Twinview setting on a single xserver (my current settings) and I was hoping their may be a simple extension for three and if so is there an easy way to go about this? (I am new to Ubuntu).
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Oct 19, 2010
what would you recommend for ubuntu video/sound cards that work pretty much out of the box?
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Dec 14, 2010
I've been using linux for roughly 12 years now but I've always avoided linux on the desktop since touching X back in the day was quite a hassle. I recently decided that rather than keeping my windows desktop full of 15 PuTTY instances, I should rock the *nix desktop.
I started by installing Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop. It detected my two monitors handing off a pci express card just fine. I decided to install the ATI drivers when it prompted me - the proprietary drivers would let me select to use the monitors separately, but would always just default back to mirroring the screens. I was unable to get it to stop that, so I had to go back to the open source drivers. Which is fine, I don't really need the 3d accel. Roll forward a week, I ordered another video card to add another screen. I purchased another ATI card, since word on the street is that same-vendor chipsets play best together. This one had to be PCI, if this matters.
dmesg reports the new card is fine and happy, but the Monitors GUI thing doesn't detect any monitors off the new card, or report anything about it. So: what should I do to make the second video card get noticed?[URL]...
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Jan 24, 2011
Been looking around and have been trying for 4 days to get my 3 monitors to work with my 2 video cards , When the system starts up I get the bootup screens on the 3rd monitor , then the login box shows up on the 1st monitor and when logging out I see the shutdown screen on the 3rd monitor again , so I know ubuntu see's it , but not sure how to include it in the regular desktop . It's just a lighted very dark red and I can't move my mouse or any windows over to it , here is my xorg.conf that I modified and tried to get it to work with :
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 260.19.06 (buildd@palmer) Mon Oct 4 16:01:38 UTC 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
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Jun 16, 2011
lsusb output:
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c313 Logitech, Inc.
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Jan 31, 2010
Due to the miss of proprietary drivers from AMD for Fedora 12, I have installed a second video card in my system (a Nvidia one) for BOINC calculation. This card is not connected to a monitor.
So in the system I have this two cards:
ATI Shappire Radeon HD2600XT (256MB)
Asus Nvidia Geoforce 6600 (356MB)
The ATI is in the first PCI express device, the Nvidia to the second PCI express:
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So I have used this Xorg configuration file (if I let Xorg to configure without the configuration file, it sets NVidia to default card and X files to start):
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The Nvidia driver were installed as described in some forum:
1) disabling nouveau in grub configuration
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2) Take SElinux to alow the driver:
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With this, the driver is correctly loaded in memory:
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But the Xorg says that not Nvidia Driver where found (see the attack file).
These are the NVIDIA driver installed:
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What can I do to make NVIDIA driver to work?
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Oct 17, 2010
I am a bit overwhelmed with all the information out here, and can't get this to work properly after trying to for two days. I have a PCI ATI card(Sapphire Radeon 9250):
00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
00:08.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
of which I am only wanting to use the Primary, and my onboard video:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)
right now my xorg.conf is empty and I only get a display off my ATI card. How can I get my onboard to display as well like it does in windows?
I've tried many ways that I found and nothing seems to work.
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Mar 17, 2011
I have onboard video card (GeForce 6150SE nForce 430) and I install one PCI-E video card (GeForce 7300 GT). In BIOS I set primary video cart to onboard. Is it possible to work simultaneously? lspci -v command showing both, but nvida-setting, nvidia-xconfig and system-config-display only show one, never both.
lspci -v
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 03d0
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
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Jul 17, 2010
I would like to know the best way to swap out video cards from ati to nvidia. For example. In windows, I would uninstall the driver, switch the cards, boot into a low VGA windows session and install the new drivers, reboot done.
In sues, I'm wondering if I uninstall the drivers, after rebooting I might loose my Gnome desktop. And I guess at that point I'd be looking at a blinking cursor?
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Mar 14, 2011
I'm trying to get ubuntu working w/ 3 monitors. I have been given 2 video cards
lspci | grep VGA
20:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450]
25:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
I have had it working w/ two monitors plugged into the ATI correctly. and the nVidia monitor blank. Now I have the nVidia monitor working and one monitor from the ATI working, but I can't seem to get the last monitor to show anything. It does show the boot screen and works up until the point you are presented w/ the login screen for ubuntu, then it disappears and the nVidia monitor turns on. Might I have something wrong w/ my xorg.conf or do I need to do something more to get this to work? Currently I'm seeing this error in my Xorg.0.log file, but I'm not sure where to go from here:
[ 24.746] (EE) RADEON(2): reusing fd for second head
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 270.29 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-02.nvid
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