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

Arne Wörner arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 22 16:26:03 UTC 2007


--- "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > You should try the ports nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig and
> > nvidia-settings (pkg_add -r <port name>)...
> 
> 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 :(
>
Ohoh... R u sure, that the regular nvidia xorg driver (nv) doesnt support dual
head?

I found this:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-May/000685.html
(but it seems to be more than 3 years old)

This seems to be newer:
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-nv.git;a=commit;h=51c6425bea6e4ef02f7b76e58e759f99b0e993e8

-Arne


       
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