I have a GeForce GT 240 running two screen and want to add a Geforce FX 5200 to run a third screen.
Looks like I lucked out with my choice of second card though (didn't have much choice, it had to be vanilla PCI) because the GT240 and FX5200 use incompatible nvidia drivers! So I need two separate drivers installed to run the two cards...
As far as I know it's impossible to install two versions of the nvidia driver at the same time, and nouveau can't be installed at the same time as nvidia, so that left me with just nv as an option.
Not having much luck with it though, because it seems nv and nouveau are more than just closely related: when using nv, lshw says I'm actually using noveau ???
I think that's why I haven't been able to get nv working alongside nvidia - nv/nouveau is removing the nvidia driver....
nv isn't exactly the same as noveau though: when I tried nv for both cards it actually managed to activate all three screens (no other driver/combination of drivers managed to do that) although they only showed a black screen.
nouveau on both cards just failed completely.
When I uninstalled nouveau through synaptic and tried nv on both cards again it failed too, didn't get the three active screens this time
So I'm wondering what the relationship between nv and nouveau is? Can I use nv without nouveau?
I saw some guy somewhere write that he successfully used nvidia and nv drivers alongside each other for two cards - has anyone had any experience in this, or read anything about it?
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