From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 08:46:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D7D16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:46:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5069443D2F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:46:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from craig.freebsd@online.de) Received: from [212.227.126.209] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CoHfm-0001Xy-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:46:42 +0100 Received: from [217.231.93.20] (helo=[192.168.0.90]) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CoHfm-0005po-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:46:42 +0100 Message-ID: <41E3926E.5060802@online.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:46:38 +0100 From: craig Organization: small-pla.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041222) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <41E261E9.5040800@online.de> <20050110173638.GB7456@keyslapper.org> <41E2FCD6.2030107@online.de> In-Reply-To: <41E2FCD6.2030107@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:13d873e74d14c1363715808660186da0 Subject: Re: nvidia driver problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: craig.freebsd@online.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:46:44 -0000 craig wrote: first off, the colour depth issue is resolved. once restarted, x loads the nvidia driver with the full 24bit colour depth. thanks for that. >>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-1, DFP-0 >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display >>> allowed; >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): using first display >> You have 2 monitors? If so, I recommend the TwinView config. It's >> tricky, but works well. > no, i dont - i have a single samsung syncmaster 213t - but it has both > analog and digital cables, as does the graphics cards. so i plugged them > both in. this is where things are not perfect now. the nvidia drivers select the first of the two cables, ie. analog. whereas i would like to to take the digital. i cannot quite explain it, but the analog view is not as 'crisp' as the digital. how can i specify to use the 'second' monitor? > > i'll help where i can - this is a very fresh install of 5.3, and onto an > empty disk - so no upgrades or changes, just a straight install. > and i can pretty much remember most of what i've done to get here - if > it helps i can certainly note the steps. perhaps you could see something > in the sequence? gl seems to work fine - cracking render rates too! so...how can i be sure out the linux compatibitily answer? thanks, -- craig@small-pla.net