Going multi-headed with nvidia 7900GS card and 6-STABLE/amd64 ...

[Yuri Pankov]

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 12:43 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Sunday, July 22, 2007 00:50:39 -0700 Arne WXrner <arne_woerner at yahoo.com> 
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> > Hi Marc!
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> > You should try the ports nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings
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> This is the dilemna ... the new computer is 64bit, and nvidia doesn't support 
> FreeBSD/64bit due to a myriad of problems with FreeBSD :(  Apparently there is 
> a group on the FreeBSD side trying to address this, but the nVidia side doesn't 
> seem to hold much hope in it getting in in time for 7.x, so 6.x is a ways out 
> yet :(
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> For those not aware, but interested, apparently this is 'the list' from their 
> side (relatively old):
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> <http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=115157983106569&w=2>
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> And this is the list on our side:
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> <http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests>
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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
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