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Marcel Treis posted <42D2498D.90001@×××××××××.de>, excerpted below, on |
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Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:27:25 +0200: |
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> since my machine crashes very often especially when emerging, wich seems |
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> to be some problem between gentoo-amd64 and nvidia-kernel, i have decided |
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> to go "nv" until the issue is resolved. My problem is that i have a |
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> dual-monitor-setup, wich i dont seem to configure right. Does anybody of |
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> you have |
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> a) a dual-monitor-setup using the generic "nv"-driver and could send me |
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> the xorg.xonf? |
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I run dual monitor here, but switched from Nvidia to ATI some time ago, |
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because I decided proprietaryware kernel drivers were no longer acceptable |
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to me, with idealism and practicality both playing a role, and NVidia |
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simply doesn't provide enough specifications for their chips to make any |
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of the fancier functions, including dual output, work very well if at all |
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in the open source drivers. |
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More directly to your setup, you say you have dual monitors, but don't |
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mention whether that's on dual cards, or dual outputs on the /same/ card |
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(aka "twinview"). As far as I am aware, the open "nv" driver doesn't |
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support dual outputs on the same card /at/ /all/, again, because NVidia's |
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implementation is proprietary and the required info to interface with |
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it in dual output mode simply hasn't been available, altho it's possible |
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someone has reverse engineered a bit more, recently, and that's changed, |
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since I used the drivers back in the XFree86 4.0 to 4.1 era. If you have |
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dual cards, each with its own output, that may work or not. It depends on |
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the open source driver, not on NVidia so much. (However, note that it's |
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possible some of the better driver devs have chosen not to work with |
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NVidia because NVidia is so obstinate about working with them. Of course, |
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there are always other options available to the developer skilled enough |
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in both hardware and software to be good at drivers, and if they feel they |
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are beating their head against the wall, they could easily find other more |
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fruitful ways to spend their time. Thus, even where the problem isn't |
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direct NVidia interference, it could be that the open drivers for them |
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remain very minimalistic and basic, comparatively, simply because those |
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that can improve them don't find it worth their while to do so.) |
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Anyway, dual output ATI Radeon 9200s (or the 9200SEs, as I have) are now |
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pretty cheap, less than $50 @ Fry's when I got mine a year ago and they've |
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dropped to < $40 since then, when I checked a couple months ago, and the |
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open source native xord drivers for them are **MUCH** better and **MUCH** |
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better supported, so if you can spare $40, that's very possibly the better |
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route to go. |
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Alternatively, as I said, try multiple boards. Otherwise, from my |
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experience up until the switch to xorg at least, support for twinview is |
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/only/ available in the proprietary drivers. Again, it's possible that |
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has changed with newer xorg, but if so, I've seen no hint of it in posts |
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or elsewhere, and I'd certainly note it if I did, because I follow |
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multi-monitor mode developments quite closely, when I see them. Of |
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course, I could still have entirely missed this one, but... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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