Possible to Have Multiple Graphics Card Drivers Installed?

Is it possible to have both the nVidia propritary, nVidia legacy, and ATI open-source drivers installed all at the same time, because I have set up a portable Arch Linux system, and I want to have want to have 3D acceleration on all of them.
My computer has an Radeon X1300, and I'm using the open-source driver for it, and this one has a Riva TNT2 Model 64.  I think the comps in the tech lab also have nVidia cards, but newer.

Mr.Elendig wrote:
Wintervenom wrote:
Is it possible to have both the nVidia propritary, nVidia legacy, and ATI open-source drivers installed all at the same time, because I have set up a portable Arch Linux system, and I want to have want to have 3D acceleration on all of them.
My computer has an Radeon X1300, and I'm using the open-source driver for it, and this one has a Riva TNT2 Model 64.  I think the comps in the tech lab also have nVidia cards, but newer.
nvidia and nvidia-xxxx conflicts with eatch other, so no. As said, only the drivers that comes with X.org play along with eachother. Welcome to the beautiful world of closed software.
You can have them both as packages an install 'em/uninstall 'em as needed...
You could make a nice simple script to run at startup so you can choose which xorg.conf to use, you could easily have many and just symlink them to xorg.conf as needed... all you kneed to know is some bash scripting.
I'd try and use a DAEMON aproach by creating and rc.d script, but you could try as you like

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