<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I am more worried about the console system putting it in consideration as a virtual terminal. If no monitor is connected, will it ignore it, or will it assume a non compliant monitor and start up at a low resolution? Or will it be completely ignored for display by the firmware and kernel console?</div><div><br></div><div>I do a lot of framebuffer (non-DRM/KMS for now) and so if the kernel ignores it, cool. If not it could be an issue if the system decides to try to use the device. </div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to tell the kernel "don't use this for display purposes, I just want it as a processor?"<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jun 8, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">All of the Tesla cards are well usable as long as you load the nvidia binary drivers.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can get cuda cores from non-tesla cards as well. Several of the gamer class cards have many such cores with a decent amount of GRAM. </p>
<p dir="ltr">You can have multiple graphics cards. The trick is to customize xorg.conf to only use the non nvidia.</p></blockquote></body></html>