Going multi-headed with nvidia 7900GS card
and 6-STABLE/amd64 ...
Yuri Pankov
yuri at darklight.org.ru
Sun Jul 22 22:12:42 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 18:31 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
>
> - --On Sunday, July 22, 2007 20:29:04 +0400 Yuri Pankov <yuri at darklight.org.ru>
> wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> a. that works
> b. ewwww ... that has to be the most painful thing on the eyes I've ever dealt
> with ...
> bit drawback: my monitors aren't the same ... one is 19", the other 19" Wide
> ... so
> my 19" W looks all stretched out :)
>
> But, at least I know it does work, now just either have to replace one of my
> monitors,
> or wait for a more 'split screen' dual head is available (ala Screen 0 vs
> Screen 1) :(
>
> But, thank you for this ...
>
> - ----
> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email . scrappy at hub.org MSN . scrappy at hub.org
> Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD)
>
> iD8DBQFGo8yd4QvfyHIvDvMRAql4AKDs6mJ4ijkI4sPJXzFsk0S8d40vmACcDIvC
> bgToddfXdcIqXaCQtsjOE44=
> =elus
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
Try this:
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/fakexinerama/
Yuri
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/attachments/20070722/2d524efa/attachment.pgp
More information about the freebsd-multimedia
mailing list