Greetings,
I would like to confirm if it's possible to work with 2 video cards, with 2 monitors.
The idea would be to connect a monitor to each video card, I have a Desktop, with an iGPU (intel) and a dGPU (nvidia).
Today, to run both monitors, and I'm just connecting both monitors cables to the Nvidia card, but by doing this, I don't have a few features that I would like to have, such as hardware decoding in Chromium.
Someone already tried this?
If so, what would happen if:
1 - Is it possible to get Chromium, with hardware decoding, working in my iGPU (intel) through the monitor that is connected to?
2 - What would happen if I move one running application to the other monitor?
3 - Both monitors have sound output, it would be able to switch from Intel audio to Nvidia audio? Or to use both at the same time like playing a steam game in Nvidia Card while watching a youtube video through my iGPU card?
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Extra info:
According to the reddit link below, people tried this setup in Windows
Here are my specs (currently iGPU disabled in Bios, but depending on the answers in this topic, I may enable it).
inxi --full --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host
System:
Kernel: 5.7.7-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.1.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H170 PRO GAMING v: Rev X.0x
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3805 date: 05/16/2018
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.58 GiB used: 3.65 GiB (23.4%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 L2 cache: 8192 KiB bogomips: 57616
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts erms est f16c flush_l1d
fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb
ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx
monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq
pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed
rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2
ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 440.100 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:2184
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1660/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:1aeb
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.7.7-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k
port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b8
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.13 TiB used: 551.66 GiB (47.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Corsair model: Neutron GTX SSD size: 223.57 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: M311 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 31.37 GiB used: 20.00 GiB (63.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
label: N/A uuid: a83e9425-bebc-4489-8f78-7b4c574d5c1a
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96.0 MiB used: 25.2 MiB (26.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A uuid: A2CD-0E09
ID-3: /run/media/marcelocc/Data size: 731.51 GiB used: 422.73 GiB (57.8%)
fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdb1 label: Data uuid: 66F27B12F27AE629
ID-4: /run/media/marcelocc/Data2 size: 195.86 GiB used: 62.88 GiB (32.1%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 label: Data2
uuid: 74a4e4c7-9e80-4e14-b2a7-dd6a95c89348
ID-5: /run/media/marcelocc/Windows size: 182.94 GiB
used: 46.02 GiB (25.2%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda4 label: N/A
uuid: 16A4E225A4E206D9
ID-6: swap-1 size: 8.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
label: N/A uuid: 61f0b68f-5722-407b-9070-e48317bd8a4e
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 529.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recupera\xc3\xa7\xc3\xa3o
uuid: 7CC0C9C2C0C982BE
ID-2: /dev/sda3 size: 16.0 MiB fs: <root required> label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 1-6:2 info: Genesys Logic 4-port hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 05e3:0610
Device-1: 1-6.1:4 info: Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge
type: <vendor specific> driver: cp210x interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 10c4:ea60 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-8:3 info: Kingston HyperX Pulsefire FPS Gaming Mouse
type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0951:16bc
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 47 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 255 Uptime: 9h 19m Init: systemd v: 245 Compilers: gcc: 10.1.0
Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.37
