experiences with dual-dvi on ATI Radeon cards / NV-cards

Anders Johansson ajh at watri.org.au
Fri Apr 13 22:20:29 PDT 2007


> On Apr 13, 07 09:55:11 +0800, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > I have a Nvidia card. Dual head setup does not work with the open
> > source nv driver, and the closed source driver requires regular
> > restarting since the desktop slows down over time.
> 
> I cannot second that. I'm not logging out of my computer for months, and
> don't see a slowdown. This probably depends on the exact driver and Xorg
> version.

The version I am using is the ones that comes with debian etch
xserver-xorg 7.1.0-16 and nvidia 1.0.8776.

It seems application dependent, I can only trigger the behavour when
Matlab is running (restarting Matlab does not help).

//Anders



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