Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:22:11 -0400
Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > What makes a dual headed card?
> 
> The card needs to have two RAMDACs, and two HD-15 VGA or DVI
> connectors.
> 
> > My system invoice described the video card as follows:
> >
> > 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI
> > 128FX52
> >
> > So, I have a TV-Out *and* DVI port on this card.  I take it this
> > isn't the same, and I won't get the expected results by plugging
> > the new monitor into this port?

Depends on the card. On some one of them is mirrored on others it is
not.

> The GeForce 5200 is (was?) the lowest-end model of the 5xxx series, 
> somewhat comparible to the "MX" variants of the GF 2 & 3 lines.  I 
> betcha the 5400 or higher has dual connections, assuming your card
> does not.

Works good hear and runs doom3 nicely. :)
 
> > But I do have to get a second card - the multiple outputs in this
> > card won't fit the bill, will it?
> 
> Well, you can usually get an AGP and a PCI card to work at the same 
> time; that will also give you two heads.

The nvidia driver, from my experience does not work on PCI cards on
4x so if you are not running 5x, this can be some what limiting if you
want opengl on both.