nVidia TwinView Dual Head problem (Rev 1)

[Doug Poland]

On Fri, July 28, 2006 01:42, Richard Ehrlich wrote:
> I am running freeBSD 6.1. I just installed an nVidia GeForce FX5200
> PCI card. When I booted , both monitors echoed the boot sequence
> (Monitor1 a clone of Monitor0).
>
> I downloaded and installed the current nvidia driver:
> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-8762. Then I installed KDE 3.5.3. I ran
> nvidia-config, then startx. I got a perfect KDE desktop on Monitor0,
> alternating horizontal bands of color on Monitor 1.
>
> I modified xorg.conf to Option "TwinView" and spec both monitors.
> Same result.
>
> Attached please find both '/root/xorg.conf' and
> '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'. The log indicates that only Monitor0 is
> recognized, but my understanding of TwinView is that's the way it's
> supposed to be.
>
> Does anyone have experience with the nVidia GeForce FX5200 PCI card
> who can advise me what I may be doing wrong?
>
Here's a working XF86Config file for my nVidia cards.  The card type
is inconsequential, it works on both my TI4200 and FX5700.  In my case
I have identical Dell D1226H monitors.  HTH.

-- 
Regards,
Doug
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: XF86Config
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 4656 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20060728/822e8463/XF86Config.obj