Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:22 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing out a second head Message-ID: <20050115204022.GH786@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <41e97ede.65d997b4.13e7.0051@smtp.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 5700LE > (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 dual > 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 -- If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday? [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB6X+2Y3r/tLQmfWcRAr2sAKCG84oAru+5Z92gfuL28WFmH4Q4NQCgkBIy lLnNfNEbNEoBAqhYB7PciMQ= =2llg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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