From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 16:46:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF18716A41F; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:46:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@darklight.org.ru) Received: from darklight.org.ru (darklight.org.ru [194.186.18.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BB813C428; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@darklight.org.ru) Received: from darklight.org.ru (yuri@darklight.org.ru [127.0.0.1]) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6MGT5Nj020967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:29:11 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri@darklight.org.ru) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6MGT41O020966; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:29:04 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri@darklight.org.ru) From: Yuri Pankov To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <40D707389F9B4C9027B72D44@fserv.hub.org> References: <729466.7225.qm@web30311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <40D707389F9B4C9027B72D44@fserv.hub.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HTiC8A8UfOI/hQiMWgjC" Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:29:04 +0400 Message-Id: <1185121744.3446.3.camel@darklight.org.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Greylist: Sender is SPF-compliant, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (darklight.org.ru [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:29:11 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going multi-headed with nvidia 7900GS card and 6-STABLE/amd64 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:46:35 -0000 --=-HTiC8A8UfOI/hQiMWgjC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 12:43 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 >=20 >=20 > - --On Sunday, July 22, 2007 00:50:39 -0700 Arne WXrner =20 > wrote: >=20 > > Hi Marc! > > >=20 > > You should try the ports nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-se= ttings > > (pkg_add -r )... >=20 > This is the dilemna ... the new computer is 64bit, and nvidia doesn't sup= port=20 > FreeBSD/64bit due to a myriad of problems with FreeBSD :( Apparently the= re is=20 > a group on the FreeBSD side trying to address this, but the nVidia side d= oesn't=20 > seem to hold much hope in it getting in in time for 7.x, so 6.x is a ways= out=20 > yet :( >=20 > For those not aware, but interested, apparently this is 'the list' from t= heir=20 > side (relatively old): >=20 > >=20 > And this is the list on our side: >=20 > >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > - ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.or= g) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.or= g > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) >=20 > iD8DBQFGo3sU4QvfyHIvDvMRAj5kAKCo0b4tHoDP+OEK07xL5cdTw1LuxQCdHpj/ > D7o47iFBAsfDUcZ3+lvptJ4=3D > =3Do5kh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >=20 xf86-video-nv was updated few days ago to version 2.1.2, which supports DualHead option (with some limitations). from nv(4) manpage: Option "Dualhead" "boolean" Enables simple VBE-based dual head mode. This sets the same resolution on both outputs and lays them out side-by-side. The screens will be panned together as one big metamode if the vir- tual desktop is larger than both screens combined. HTH, Yuri --=-HTiC8A8UfOI/hQiMWgjC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGo4W4eoAklVFrLdgRAgYFAJ47TRXUtwk9qZwsZ0U/iNOkOerulwCgj3X/ 3CugpIdCBY54gAidmlRBbXU= =U8UK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HTiC8A8UfOI/hQiMWgjC--