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Nephyrin · 07-06-10, 02:18 PM

For what it's worth, I have a GTX 295 working with twinview, with the second GPU disabled. In fact, this is how X configured itself out of the box - without the 'MultiGPU' option in Xorg.conf, the second core just sits idle and GPU-0 drives both screens. Unless you're planning on playing high end games, a single core of a GTX295 should do just about anything to do with the desktop/compositing just as well for two monitors. The most intensive thing I do graphically in linux is play WoW, and that manages 60FPS on one monitor (with compositing enabled, no less) without the second core.

That said, the multi-monitor support in linux is pretty depressing - only proprietary driver hacks or a slow poorly supported extension... srsly?

07-06-10, 02:18 PM	#6
Nephyrin Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Simi Valley, CA Posts: 45	Re: GTX 295 (dual core) not working with two screens and compositing? For what it's worth, I have a GTX 295 working with twinview, with the second GPU disabled. In fact, this is how X configured itself out of the box - without the 'MultiGPU' option in Xorg.conf, the second core just sits idle and GPU-0 drives both screens. Unless you're planning on playing high end games, a single core of a GTX295 should do just about anything to do with the desktop/compositing just as well for two monitors. The most intensive thing I do graphically in linux is play WoW, and that manages 60FPS on one monitor (with compositing enabled, no less) without the second core. That said, the multi-monitor support in linux is pretty depressing - only proprietary driver hacks or a slow poorly supported extension... srsly?