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Nouveau drivers 'init failed'

I am receiving errors from the nouveau drivers on boot. I receive the errors twice: once about 8 seconds after the kernel starts and once again about 19 seconds after the kernel starts. [ ...
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How to get GPU acceleration working for my old PC?

I am using an old PC Pentium4 2.4Ghz with nVidia GS 7900 AGP 256MB and I would like to support the video play from GPU. As far what I have read, the support for vdpau has come for nVidida 8 series. ...
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How well will the AMD Radeon HD 7950 gpu perform on Linux?

The time has come for me to upgrade my aging gpu (9800 gt). The AMD 7950 has caught my attention because of the attractive price with pleasing benchmarks. But it is common knowledge that AMD GPUs have ...
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How does X11 forwarding work?

How does X11 forwarding work? I am interested in knowing whether the processing to render graphics is done at the end of the host running the application or the host displaying the graphical ...
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GPU computing without X?

I am attempting to run GPU computation software on Ubuntu Server 12.04 without X since this box is going to be a dedicated computation machine. However the last requirement "Without X" is proving to ...
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How to setup 3 screens with 2 ATI GPU Debian Squeeze

I want to use 3 screens on my computers with 2 graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5450. I've installed fglrx ATI drivers. Here is the result of lspci : root@dev1:~# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible ...
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Is it possible to use OpenCL on a minimal OS without X?

I'm looking to use OpenCL for Bitcoin mining. Obviously it is technologically possible to use a GPU and OpenCL without X; Windows machines do it all the time. I'm wondering if there is a way to use ...
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GPU usage monitoring (CUDA)

I installed CUDA toolkit on my computer and started BOINC project on GPU. In BOINC I can see that it is running on GPU, but is there a tool that can show me more details about that what is running on ...