From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 12:34:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7582E16A40A for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:34:10 +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 8F88113C441 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:34:09 +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 l6HCUUG8001782 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:30:36 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri@darklight.org.ru) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6HCURrP001781; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:30:27 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri@darklight.org.ru) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:30:27 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: dgmm Message-ID: <20070717123027.GA1403@darklight.org.ru> References: <200707171222.51982.freebsd01@dgmm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707171222.51982.freebsd01@dgmm.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender is SPF-compliant, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (darklight.org.ru [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:30:37 +0400 (MSD) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Dual head video cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:34:10 -0000 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:22:51PM +0100, dgmm wrote: > Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for when purchasing a dual head= =20 > video card? >=20 > I'm currently looking for a cheap NVidia card with both analogue and digi= tal=20 > output to use my old 21" CRT and the new 19" LCD but, as usual, there's v= ery=20 > little info other than for Windows in the write ups/reviews. >=20 > I've never used dual head before so I'm concerned that some cards might s= hare=20 > resources to the extent that they are windows only . Maybe I'm seeing=20 > potential problems that aren't there? >=20 > Budget is tight so I don't want to screw up the purchase. "Cheap" is wor= d I'm=20 > looking for :-) >=20 > --=20 > Dave Nvidia's DualHead works nice, but only with binary Nvidia drivers (which are i386 only). There's some preliminary support for DualHead in xorg's opensource nv driver (starting with version 2.1.0, AFAIK), so it can be used with FreeBSD/amd64, but it doesn't play nice with Xinerama yet. Check Nvidia's documentation and release notes for drivers for more information. HTH, Yuri --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGnLZjeoAklVFrLdgRAlvGAKCPeW+oxnVuXrviNLDgT+or6tUwCgCbBsgH qSt6Q3RSViGFD925gncUfJ8= =KR+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--