On 2014-10-01 16:39 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have recently acquired 2 (identical, 4/3 shaped) screens, so I > combined them with my current favorite screen on a computer which have > 2 graphic cards, but it seems that Debian did not enabled the second > card. > > I have tried it on a temporary Ubuntu install, and it works fine out > of the box, so Debian must be able to use that 2nd card too. I tried > to install a more recent kernel from backports on Debian just in case, > but still no luck. Now that I'm thinking about it, I did not checked > what Ubuntu uses as driver, so if it uses NVidia, this could be the > reason, since I'm using nouveau on Debian. But I think that Ubuntu > does not install proprietary blobs by default? > I tried to find a xorg.conf in /etc on both system, no one had it. > > There is no Internet access from that computer, so packages are > installed from the Ubuntu DVD I bought 2-3 months ago (14.04 IIRC) and > from a Debian DVD set I have downloaded at work (7.5, DVDs 1 to 9 > IIRC).
Obviously, Ubuntu 14.04 is quite a bit newer than Debian 7, so some things which work there might not be supported in Wheezy. > Does anyone knows if nouveau is supports a configuration with 2 > graphic cards, or do I have to install NVidia's drivers to do the job? > Does someone have some links to documents which could explain how to > enable that 2nd card? http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop/ has some information. > Note that I think the second card is disabled, because after doing > quick searches in /sys, I discovered that what I suppose to be the > second card directory have a file named "enabled" which contains > "0". But I'm not expert at all when it comes to kernel stuff. Me neither, but running "dmesg | grep nouveau" could be useful. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87k34ju7z0....@turtle.gmx.de
