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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:06:56PM +1000, Trevor Rhodes wrote: |
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> I've only been on gentoo a few weeks and amd64 since sunday. I did have |
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> my dual head working on 32bit gentoo with a radeon graphics card, but |
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> with the change to 64 I thought I'd change that too. So now I have a |
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> NX6200TC. Can somebody help me get the dual head to work with this card |
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> please? I'm totally lost. |
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Anyway, to actually answer your question: |
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I don't think you can get dual-head going with the "nv" driver provided with X.org. As far as proprietary drivers go, nvidia seems to at least be doing it right, except for being a little slow on the releases. The one that's currently out (8762) doesn't officialy support xorg-server-1.1.*. It is usable, but some things don't work properly. Everything works fine on older versions of xorg-server. |
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I would suggest giving the nvidia driver a try, although you'll have to fight with portage a bit to let you do it. Once you do, you might make your xorg.conf file have some of these bits: |
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Section "Device" |
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Identifier "My Video Card" |
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Driver "nvidia" |
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# Driver "nv" |
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#all these options are probably broken with xorg-server-1.1.* |
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#NVIDIA Option "RenderAccel" "1" |
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#NVIDIA Option "CursorShadow" "1" #this one might be ok |
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#NVIDIA Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" |
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#from here on should be ok |
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#### TWINVIEW #### |
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Option "TwinView" "1" |
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Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1280x1024,NULL; 1024x768,NULL; 1600x1200,NULL" #read the nvidia docs to make this do what you want |
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# Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-70" #this is how you specify your other monitor settings |
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# Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-120" #KDS |
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#note that you can usually leave all the refresh rate info out and have X figure it out |
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Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf" #pick one |
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# Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf" |
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Section "Screen" |
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Identifier "Screen 1" |
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Device "My Video Card" |
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Monitor "My Monitor" |
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DefaultDepth 24 |
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Subsection "Display" |
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Depth 24 |
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Modes "1280x1024,1280x1024" "1280x1024," ",1280x1024" |
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ViewPort 0 0 |
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EndSubsection |
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EndSection |
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#end config bits |
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I can't say for certain that the nvidia driver will let you do dual head with xorg-server-1.1.*, but I assume it would. I don't have the deskspace to setup dual-head stuff during the summer. I'm hoping for the next version of the drivers to be released RealSoonNow, since nvidia had a new release of the Windows driver a few weeks ago. |
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