From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 20:58:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0252616A46B for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:58:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig@xfoil.gank.org) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [69.55.238.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E524513C46C for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:58:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig@xfoil.gank.org) Received: by ion.gank.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9602E11246; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:58:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:58:49 -0500 From: Craig Boston To: Eric Anholt Message-ID: <20070615205849.GA37130@nowhere> References: <20070613160835.GA6461@nowhere> <1181762881.1241.6.camel@vonnegut> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1181762881.1241.6.camel@vonnegut> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Dualhead with nv (was Re: ZFS tuning tips?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:58:52 -0000 On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:28:01PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > The nv 2d driver supports randr 1.2 on the G80, so it would be a matter > of getting our server updated and updating to the latest nv driver (I've > left the server alone so that things could settle with the xorg upgrade > for a while). Mine's actually a G70, but thanks for the tip anyway. I found that a hack has recently been added to enable both heads using VBE calls. Indeed, installing the 2.0.96 experimental driver and enabling DualHead seems to work well enough for my needs. Only big problem is missing Xinerama info, but I think this [ http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/fakexinerama/ ] may be helpful. Craig