Multiple video card drivers?

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I guess it's a newbie question.
I have Arch installed on my USB pen drive. It will therefore be taken around on different computers with different hardware - including video cards.
I figured that I basically had two choices:
1. Install some very general drivers that work with basically anything
2. Install many specialized drivers
For #1 I guess Vesa will do, but it won't give me a lot of eye-candy. I believe alsa is quite general so I won't need anything else for sound?
My question is related to #2. Is it a good idea to have many drivers installed? Can they all be installed at the same time?
I would appreciate if anyone had some advice for me here, not only for video cards, but also for other hardware, like printers.

I dont think mixing two video drivers like nvidia and ATI is recommended. Use the VESA driver and for printers it's also different , most sound cards support ALSA.

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Multiple Video Cards - 4 monitors

I was wondering if there was anyone out there that has a successful installation of multiple video cards. i.e. 1 AGP with dual ports and a PCI with dual ports. I would like to run 4 22" monitors on a G4. Just want to know if there were any reccomendations on card brands/types and configurations
Have multiple Mac's from G4 733 Giga to G4 Dual drive... Lil help

I'd reccomend using all ATI cards as they are/were better supported as far as multiple cards and features are concerned. A decent set up would be an ATI radeon 9800pro AGP with an ATI radeon 9200 PCI. Both are dual head and for PCI the 9200 is pretty good.

What are multiple video cards good for?

Yeah, I know it is probably a dorky question but I would certainly like to know the answer before I start pricing my future Mac Pro. What I'm thinking about is online gaming stuff (which I'm just getting into so I'm still a little clueless). My question is:
Are four GeForce 7300 cards better than one X1900 for gaming/graphics?
It sounds like from the other posts that the X1900 is the superior card. Am I reading things correctly?
Thanks,
Toast
867 MHz G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

One advantage of multiple video cards is monitor calibration. When running two monitors off of one card, it's simply not possible to (accurately), calibrate both screens. Altering the video LUT of the card to dial in one monitor will affect the calibration of the other.
On my previous G4 system, I ran two screens from separate cards (two CRTs - different makes and size). With hardware calibration, I was able to get them to match perfectly. On my Mac Pro running the same screens from only one card, I can get them close but not perfect - more importantly, I have to decide which monitor is to be properly calibrated.
Not particularly important for gaming performance but there you go ...
-phil

Video card drivers location?

Hello. I have a pop up message when trying to run Firestorm virtual world client in Windows 7 (in Boot Camp on new MacBook Pro).
It says that the 'video card drivers did not install properly'
So i opened device manager and scrooled down the list and no 'video card' listed on menu but everything is all up to date except Other Device - Coprocessor and SM Bus Controller.
Right clicked to update these but no fix found online :-(
Could this be the problem though?
Or does some windows only application not run on a Mac even in Boot Camp?
Thanks.

If you have a new Mac you also have Lion, or Mountain Lion. This means you do not have a disk, because there isn't one. Go back to Boot Camp, try again, the servers are notoriously erratic, be patient.

HP ProBook 4520s Video Card Drivers issue

I've installed OpenSuse 11.4 on my ProBook 4520s but cannot install the ATI video card drivers downloaded from HP website because they have issues (the details are below). The same problem occurred when I was trying SLED 11.
Any help in resolving it is much appreciated.
# rpm -i --test x11-video-fglrxG02-HP-8.778-1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
   ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp is needed by x11-video-fglrxG02-HP-8.778-1.i586
rpm -i --test ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
   x11-video-fglrxG02-HP = 8.778 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_slab) = 884143f7bb3b29d8 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_pci-dma) = 18f3a6981b885355 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:vmlinux) = 8556a89d270afd07 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_acpi_acpi) = dcfc4948b8a3784d is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_semaphore) = c7a91f1e83a87245 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_acpi_acpica_acpi) = 5f1dc75b51b76d9d is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_cred) = e51be686b5608bdf is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_char_sysrq) = 3095effabe71b430 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_acpi_boot) = d5557e0387b76d16 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_wait) = e8f53b6be41ec496 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_pci_access) = e3c01ee5da860b7b is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_char_agp_agpgart) = b8d7dac9fe36f951 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_pci_pci) = e1f235945f672640 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_mm_ioremap) = b24fb469fed14c09 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_mm_numa_32) = 9ef7c88ebfabb599 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_vmalloc) = 00333fc478fb491c is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:fs_proc_proc) = f10e43fa097582b3 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_cpu_mtrr_main) = 26332824d47d19a4 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_freezer) = d5eabe004495daf0 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:lib_kernel_lock) = 33d46f710a4cfe1b is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_mmap) = 952f8c05e4ec9fbe is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_spinlock) = c587e1beb0442cf5 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_params) = 7a2a1002ec0a9ea5 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_sched) = cd502055ee9cb337 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_page_alloc) = 19378ac62ac91e4f is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_printk) = 00d8bd08f3a3d5be is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_rwsem) = ee607b7f03367958 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_signal) = d6ba4771bd5e37d8 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_pci_msi) = 38af3a9e6efaeb48 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_char_vt) = 7e446b394c663515 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:fs_char_dev) = 7643f5a0f32bebcc is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_pci_search) = 6c3be8c8a064386e is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_smp) = 40477101ad48c38a is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_setup_percpu) = 17d1f6c8d23285f9 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_setup) = 0d7b73d5efacc61f is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_mm_pageattr) = f770895c2125b50b is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_dumpstack) = 5ef8ca5e1af7a7b7 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_highmem) = f48bc6443314c6bf is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_cpu) = b8f238ad57f79074 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_char_random) = bf28b0770e45055d is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_time) = bce22ae6bc382d05 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_capability) = 21ae5dc41a677bfa is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_mm_highmem_32) = ca35d819de7781a6 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_irq_manage) = 6bee263615b7d85a is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:drivers_pci_pci-driver) = 4f3d6d9acf106062 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_memory) = 9941affe5f6ca853 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_mempolicy) = 2d4aa8973083e641 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_module) = e4b3c22771c796a9 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_kthread) = 3d9f6dbb1283d5ee is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:fs_fcntl) = 5c0d0de0bb371b8c is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_softirq) = 8dd3868852cd9aff is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_cpu_common) = a5219bad46e9ed44 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:lib_hweight) = 164fda3d6013e0fe is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_timer) = 5941964e823d8cb1 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:arch_x86_kernel_tsc) = bb573884e9c8a42a is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:mm_swap) = bbd208c56f3d3bf9 is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586
   kernel(pae:kernel_panic) = 244b172e2d8fbf2e is needed by ati-fglrxG02-HP-kmp-pae-8.778_2.6.32.12_0.7-2.i586

Did you find solution to your problem ^

Multiple Video Cards

Hey guys,
New to Mac and looking to make the big switch. Looking at the Mac Pro I'm stumped on the multiple video card option. It looks as though most people use multiple cards for dual or more monitors.
My question is this. If I'm running only a large monitor dual or triple video cards would still be beneficial correct? I want to switch to dual monitors in the near future and I work with huge photo files and CAD type drawings that suck up a lot of memory and resources.
Would I bet better off just getting one kick a$$ card and spending the extra money on RAM? Not sure what the best route is.
Thanks guys,
Mike

A single monitor, regardless of how big it is, can only be plugged into a single video card. Adding a second card without plugging a monitor into it will only use up energy.
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Mac Mini video card drivers Win 7 64 bit sp1

I was running OSX 10.6.4 and dual booting with Vista 64 bit when Vista crashed. I went out and purchased Win 7 64 bit SP1 OEM version. I used bootcamp to install this sucesfully but whatever I seem to try I cannot find/install the correct driver for the graphics card in Win 7. It still defaults to Standard VGA Graphics Adapter 1280 x 1024.
I moved from the U.S to Thailand but forgot to bring my bootcamp disc (Otherwise I might not even be writing this post). I purchased a copy of Snow Lepoard 10.6.3 which has bootcamp 3.1 on it but still not the correct video card drivers. I have also upgraded bootcamp to 3.2 and 3.3 and tried all the Win 7 updaates but to no avail. I have tried to install manually from bootcamp on the DVD, I have read a few forums with the same issue but it tends to be a MacBook Pro and not a Mac Mini issue. I have also instaleld Nvidia 285.38 and 285.62 drivers and both of these give me a black screen, so I know these are not the correct drivers.
I purchased my Mac Mini in Nov of 2010 and its a model MC270LL/A. If I look in OSX I can see my video card is the
Nvidia Geforce 320 M
Vendor - NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID 0x08a4
Revision ID 0x00a2
Rom Revision 3546.
I am not sure why this has to be so difficult but it is! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much.

There's a complicated driver issue.
I'm also a user of Mac mini(2010, server) with windows7 x64.
My experience is:
The only newest nvidia driver for daily using without trouble is 267.76.
If you want to use 27x~ 285.62/285.79,
your primary monitor must be connected to Mac mini with miniDisplayPort-VGA adapter,
I got the same black screen with applying HDMI port as primary.
If you upgrade to 290.36/295.51(the latest one),
you can prevent black screen with HDMI port,sounds good,right?
But as long as you update to any of the newest two drivers,
you will suffer BSOD(Blue Screen of Death, abnormally reboot, error code:0x116) during checking Windows index
or just watching HD movies, that anything may cause GPU malfunction.
Referece thread:http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=215256
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I always got BSOD when I want to enjoy Blu-ray 3D films.

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I'm looking at getting a mac pro, and I'm wondering if there is any point to getting multiple video cards (2x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB).
I've been editing in FCP on a G5 for years now, and only had one video card.
Does the current version of FCP7 utilize them? Or does any of the other Studio software utilize them?
And if FCP7 does take advantage of multiple cards, where am I going to notice the difference if I add multiple cards... rendering? exporting? playback?
Any advice would be great!

We see this topic in various forms about weekly.
FCP does not use multiple cards. In fact, FCP really doesn't take advantage of a single card's GPU. But Motion does, which means if you have .motn files in your FCP project, you may see some kind of boost.
I don't know anything about the 120 but, personally, I will never buy another nvidia card. The minimum for Motion would be the Radeon 4870.
FCPv5 and v6 had issues with some FxPlug filters supplied with Motion if you had multiple monitors plugged into multiple cards but not of you had multiple monitors plugged into a single card. This got fixed in FCP7.
bogiesan

Multiple Video Cards for 3 Monitor Display

I'm in the process of creating a large multiscreen presentation (3 screens). I need an application (will probably be authored in Director or Flash) to span all three screens. Each screen will have a resolution of 1280 x 720. I am looking into what the best solution is for this.
One Quad head card?
Two video cards, one dual head, one normal?
Three video cards?
I've heard with PCs that if you have multiple video cards, you can't run a fullscreen application across video cards. Does the same hold true for Macs?
Any suggestions?

I'm having a hard time figuring this out. It seems as though people on this forum have been playing games across all three monitors. However, I just went to the big glass Mac store in NYC and asked a few people at the "genius bar." The guy I talked to was very skeptical of running a fullscreen application across video cards. Another guy I talked to said it was application dependent. They had no MacPros with dual head cards, so I couldn't check its settings.
If anyone can out genius the genius bar and give me a solid answer, I'd be greatly indebted. I'd like to get an answer before spending 5 grand on a system.

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Hi,
I'm using the 3d Picture Control and displaying images using the scene window (the video hardware-accelerated window). The original video card was a Nvidia Quadro FX370 (PCI-express slot). I added a second video card, a Nvidia GeForce 6200 (PCI slot). Now the scene window will only render on displays connected to the second video card. When moved to a display on the original card, no scene is displayed and the window latches on to the background. Does anyone have any experience with this or have any suggestions?
TIA,
Joe

Hi Joe,
It seems as though there may be a conflict between the drivers for the two video cards. Since the video cards are made by the same company there may be some shared files between the driver and when they both try accessing the file it could be creating an errorous situation. The first step I would take is to ensure that you have the most up to date drivers for both video cards to verify that this situation has not already been fixed. Next to identify if your video cards are in fact sharing files:
Right click on My Computer and select properties to bring up the System Properties
Click on the Device Manager under the Hardware tab
Once the device manager is populated expand the display adapters and select one of your video card drivers
Right click and bring up its property window
Go to the Driver tab and click on the Driver Details to bring up all of the files the driver uses
Repeat steps 3-5 for the other video card driver and compare to see if it shares any files
Please reply and let me know the results of this process. This will help us to more specifically identify our issue.
Thanks and have a great night!
Cheers,
Jonah
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Jonah Paul
Marketing Manager, Embedded Software
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Hello apple community. I frequently use my intel 20" imac for games by using Bootcamp (IT OWNS!!!!) to switch to Windows XP. I have been running Steam games with about 40-50 fps on all high settings except anti aliasing is set at x8 CSAA instead of the max, x16 CSAA. I know my graphics card can get more frames than x8. I blame the drivers. Where can I find good ATI drivers?
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I have heard that you can connect more than one video cards as long as they are pci. Does this fully work/ what do you recommend?

Hi-
I have heard that you can connect more than one video cards as long as they are pci.
Yes, one may.
Does this fully work/
No, not for all apps or all OS versions.
what do you recommend?
Choices are limited to Radeon 9200 Mac Edition, Radeon 7000 (Mac) , Geforce 5200 (Flashed) and Geforce 6200 (Flashed).
Support for multiple monitors in pro apps will be hit and miss, primarily the latter.
Quartz Extreme support is of concern, with only the flashed 6200 providing such (from other reports).
PCI graphics cards do not provide graphics acceleration as AGP cards do, so they are not for gaming or any graphics/video intensive applications.

I need new video card drivers

I have problems with a few games that have. Dead Space 2, Fable 3, and Borderlands have graphical glitches that i tried to fix myself, but to not success. i tried to change the settings on the them and tried patching them to the latch version. I also tried to update the drivers from Ati's website, but when i tried to install them, it states that my video card is incompatible with it. I have the Ati Mobility Radeon HD 6550 on the HP dv7-4280us. Any help on this situiation will be greatly appreciated.

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check this link. this is the full list of drivers for your computer. you can download other drivers for you hardware components in this link as well.
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