5 Feb 2008 gilbou   » (Journeyer)

installed under debian unstable a xps from dell, model m1730. freaky machine. it runs a dual core from intel, and is loaded with two nvidia 8700M GT video cards with SLI link and.. a PhysX card. my god. after a 2.6.22 kernel install, I added the kernel headers and installed the nvidia 169.09 drivers. what is strange is on the day before, I did the same driver install on a very same debian unstable snapshot, and two scripts located in /etc/init.d, namely nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, were screwing the driver on each reboot. I had to rm those two files to keep the 169.09 working on the dell laptop (a d630). on the xps, after the kernel module compilation and install, opengl 32 bits install, those two scripts were not present in /etc/init.d. if you are installing the nvidia drivers and they break on reboot, rm the nvidia-* scripts from /etc/init.d ;)

having the SLI to work was very easy. edited the xorg.conf and forced the MultiGPU option to yes and selected AFR (alternate frame rendering) as method rather than Auto because in this mode the SLI/Dual GPU rendering will only work if the application being run is recognized.

been installing OCS and Munin-client on every box on the network at the CNRS here and it's a pretty good stuff. Problem is the load on the processor on the server side goes up for each machine we had to Munin... and it goes up a little too fast 8)

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