CFT: x11/nvidia-driver major update to 304.xx series

Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. lkchen at ksu.edu
Thu Sep 27 17:35:05 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> 2012/9/26 Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. <lkchen at ksu.edu>:
> > So, now that its in the wild...I upgraded...and it broke my dual
> > monitor desktop (at work).  Seems like gdm/gnome can't see the
> > other monitor.  Tried rebuilding a bunch of other things, but
> > didn't help.  Reverting to previous (295.71) has things working
> > again.  Wonder what people will do for portdowngrade when CVS goes
> > away.
> 
> Are you setting the dual screen up in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, at home and
> at work ? Is yes, how ? With last nvidia drivers you can use xrandr
> instead of twinview.
> 

dual screen in /etc/X11/xorg.conf using Xinerama....configs are the same (except for hardware) at home and at work.  Got things working at home first, and followed that to get it working at work.


-- 
Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator
For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally
Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS)
Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102
Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: lkchen at ksu.edu
Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list