Two Nouveaus Running

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/05/2010 02:56 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist<fry.kun at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >>> $ps -ef shows, in part:
> >>>
> >>>       root
> >>     178 
>    2  0
> >> 09:06 ?        00:00:00
> [nouveau/0]
> >>>       root
> >>     179 
>    2  0
> >> 09:06 ?        00:00:00
> [nouveau/1]
> >>> Is this normal?  I don't recall ever
> having two.
> >> Probably two for the two heads. I have 2 Radeon
> processes
> >> running even
> >> though I only have 1 card in my laptop:
> >> root       138 
> >>     2 
>    0 
> >>     0  0 Dec03 ? 
>    
> >>    00:00:00 [radeon/0]
> >> root       139 
> >>     2 
>    0 
> >>     0  0 Dec03 ? 
>    
> >>    00:00:00 [radeon/1]
> > I will check into this.  My graphics card has
> DVI, VGA and HDMI (I think) out.  Only DVI connection
> is being used.
> >
> > B
> 
> It doesn't have to be "used" -- I don't have an external
> monitor 
> connected right now but I have these two processes running
> anyway

My concern has been abated.  Thanks.  Of course, I'll never be free of my (very) old computer philosophy:  If it ain't being used, it shouldn't be there. ;-)

B