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Week 34 of 2009 in review

I thought to myself…

Darragh…. you don’t update this nearly enough! You need to come up with some kind of repeating feature to force yourself to update this more regularly!

Now you see the thing is, I quite like writing. That said, I don’t do it nearly enough. So with that in mind this is the concept that I have come up with. I am going to do a week in review post… well once a week obviously. Anyway it is going to be a bit of a mixed bag with regard to content. I will cover stuff that has directly affected me (in keeping with my usual personal blogs) and also some interesting news stuff from the past week. By interesting, I mean interesting to me. Read the rest of this entry »

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Enabling SLi on Ubuntu 8.10

Enable SLi in Ubuntu

Enable SLi in Ubuntu

After finally getting around installing Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell XPS M1730 Notebook, I was interested to know what sort of performance I was getting from the dual nVidia M8700GT graphics cards this laptop sports. I did have a feeling that it was not utilising both cards and indeed my concern seems to have been entirely founded as it was most certainly not using both cards. This even though I am using the latest nVidia drivers in the Ubuntu repository.

It turns out however that the nVidia driver is indeed SLi ready though note enabled by default. Happy days I think, must be something I missed in the nVidia Xserver Config. Alas it was not. Both cards appear in the control panel however one is assigned to screen0 as it should be and the other is not attached to any screen.

So here is a quick guide as to what to do in order to enable full SLi support. Thankfully there is nothing much to it so here we go.

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