From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 20:40:25 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 BF73616A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.3.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7450843D39 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:40:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 40) id 6A61613B94A; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4102413B8D4; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:23 +0100 (CET) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0FKeMTH014528; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:22 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Subhro Message-ID: <20050115204022.GH786@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , Subhro , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41e97ede.65d997b4.13e7.0051@smtp.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41e97ede.65d997b4.13e7.0051@smtp.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on kweetal.tue.nl X-Spam-DCC: : X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=6.3 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing out a second head X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:40:25 -0000 --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:06:30AM +0530, Subhro wrote: > I am running FBSD 5.3-R amd64 on a AMD 3000+ with a nVidia GeForce Fx 570= 0LE > (256M) card plugged into the AGP slot. Two monitors are fixed to the card. > One goes in the normal VGA slot, the other goes into the DVI slot via a > VGA-DVI converter. I have been trying to get Xorg running on this setup. > However I have not been successful so far. The "nvidia" driver supports d= ual > headed setups. But it is only limited to the i386 platform. Anyone would > please help me out by suggesting how to setup "Twinview" with the "nv" > driver? Any pointers would be welcome. My experience with setting up a dual-head nVidia FX 5200 last week was that I really needed the binary driver -- the open source 'nv' one just gave me messed up blinking colors on the second head. I don't know if that's really all that is available, just relating my experience here. --Stijn --=20 If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday? --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB6X+2Y3r/tLQmfWcRAr2sAKCG84oAru+5Z92gfuL28WFmH4Q4NQCgkBIy lLnNfNEbNEoBAqhYB7PciMQ= =2llg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+--