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From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Fwd: Help me with NVIDIA twinview
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:49:38
Message-Id: 1177188418.22799.8.camel@vishnu.fmp.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Fwd: Help me with NVIDIA twinview by Matteo Bonicolini
1 Unfortunately, Nvidia cards aren't well supported in Linux, as I've
2 found out since I also have a GeForce card. Nvidia considers the ABI
3 for their video cards to be proprietary and although they've released a
4 number of binary driver components for Linux, they always seem to lag a
5 bit behind both their hardware technology and the Linux bleeding edge.
6
7 On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 13:05 +0000, Matteo Bonicolini wrote:
8 >
9 > Hi staff .
10 > I'm very frustating for this prolem:
11 > I have dell precision 390 with Intel Core 2 duo (E6600 cpu) .I replace
12 > my standard video card with Galaxy GeForce 7950 GT video card with two
13 > video output.I have one crt SyncMaster 750p and a lcd SyncMaster 172w.
14 > Card work well with one monitor(dri enable ecc...) but fail with two
15 > Monitor's (only one monitor, ever crt, wake up) .
16 > Xorg. don't load Nvidia twinview module and ignore all command that
17 > activate it and disable xinerama.
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