[linux-audio-user] nvidia drivers

[Joseph Dell'Orfano]

My audio system is running 2 fanless ATI cards, one AGP and one PCI. I
would be happy to send my xfree config files off list if you  like. I am
using fedora core 1 which set it all up automagically for me. I had
heaps of trouble using an older distro (hence an older xfree) to get
dual head behaviour from my ATI cards and from an NVidia card. 

A fanless card goes a long way! There is a water cooled system made by
Zalman which allows you to replace the video fans with water cooled
pipes.

-Joe D


On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:17, Florin Andrei wrote:
> Something apparently unrelated to Linux audio, but in fact it is. Let me
> explain.
> 
> 1. Is there a way to run an NVidia card dual-head (two monitors) using
> the open source drivers?
> 2. Is there a way to silence the fan on an NVidia-based card other than
> loading up the proprietary drivers? (which silences it as long as there
> is no hard graphics work)
> 
> Being able to extend the desktop across two monitors, and not having to
> bear the obnoxious fan on the graphics card are the reasons why i'm
> using the NVidia proprietary driver, because:
> - i want to use two monitors because audio apps are hungry for desktop
> real estate
> - the noisy fan is very disturbing when doing any kind of audio work
> 
> But there's a nasty side-effect of the proprietary driver - the system
> seems to freeze for a few seconds every once in a while (about once a
> day).
> There are no side-effects of the open source driver, but i don't know
> how to tell it to work in dual-head mode and i don't know how to silence
> the fan.