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:
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> - --On Sunday, July 22, 2007 20:29:04 +0400 Yuri Pankov <yuri at darklight.org.ru> 
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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.
> 
> 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 ...
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Try this:
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/fakexinerama/


Yuri
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