Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:48:19 -0700 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Kep Woof <kep.woof@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual dvi on FreeBSD Message-ID: <57d710000510290848s3a23b61v780f38b67d16e902@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9c8168780510280733w2c3b19d8od693b2c4368dcd42@mail.gmail.com> References: <9c8168780510280733w2c3b19d8od693b2c4368dcd42@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/28/05, Kep Woof <kep.woof@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've just bought a pair of TFT screens and wanted to connect them to > my FreeBSD box via their DVI connectors. I've been searching with > google and the list archives, and it seems that the NVidia stuff > doesn't dual head and that ATI are rather unhelpful with regard to > drivers. I found the project to write drivers for the x800 series > cards, but they look very less than ready. > > I'm currently running on i386, but will be building a big amd64 > workstation shortly. These boards seem to use PCI express, and I was > wondering how well supported is that? What about SLI? > > Is anyone running an amd64 system with dual dvi tft's? Are there any > dual dvi cards supported ? Anyone running with two dvi cards? > > Any suggestions would be extremely helpful, Which Nvidia drivers are you checking out? The propritary Nvidia drivers defiantly do Daullink DVI. You will obviously need to set it up properly in xorg.conf. Can't comment on the ati cards, but they should defiantly handle dual DVI out as well. I'd also check out Xorg's Xinimera (spelling?) extensions... -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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