Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:50:48 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8 / amd64 / Xorg / nvidia GeForce 5200 Message-ID: <201003251650.48726.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <2092844706.52171269486849103.JavaMail.root@mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu> References: <2092844706.52171269486849103.JavaMail.root@mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu>
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On Thursday 25 March 2010 04:14:09 Tim Gustafson wrote: > 1. Is there any way to get the nvidia-driver-173 port to work with my amd64 > OS? I'm afraid it's not possible. > 2. Is there any way to get the second head of the 5200 video card to work > using the nv driver? I tried adding a second device section to xorg.conf > but the system errors out telling me that it tried to use conflicting > hardware. I've attached both my xorg.conf and my Xorg.0.log file to this > message. Did you try xrandr? It should report multiple heads (run the command without arguments). You can then enable the second monitor using something like: xrandr --output DVI1 --auto - Pieter
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