Are we rebasing xorg-x11 packages in F20?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 19:10:57 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 25/11/14 16:55, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 15:57 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> I thought multi-gpu randr was supported in 1.4? I certainly see one
>>> provider for each of the two gpus in this machine, and can see five
>>> connectors across the two with three monitors connected. It looks like
>>> it just adds an extra digit to the connector names on the second card:
>>
>>
>> In the optimus sense of multi-gpu, yes, that works.  In the classic
>> Xinerama sense of "two PCIE cards installed next to each other", not so
>> much.
>
>
> That isn't optimus, at least not as I understand optimus, it's two Nvidia
> PCIe cards:
>
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]
> (rev a1)
> 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]

Optimus means one card renders in the other cards framebuffer and only
one of them actually scans out that framebuffer and puts it on screen.


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