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Trevor Rhodes <trevor@×××××××××××××.net> posted |
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44B5D4F0.30008@×××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 |
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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 with |
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> the change to 64 I thought I'd change that too. So now I have a NX6200TC. |
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> Can somebody help me get the dual head to work with this card please? |
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> I'm totally lost. |
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A quick google says NVidia proprietary hardware, meaning no supplied |
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specs, meaning you must either use NVidia slaveryware or the 2D only |
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freedomware drivers. That's why I've stuck with an ATI Radeon 9250 -- it |
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has freedomware OpenGL drivers and I couldn't legally do slaveryware if I |
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wanted to at least in places where a EULA is considered binding. FWIW, I |
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have it running dual 21 inch monitors, currently in 1600x2400 (1600x1200 |
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stacked), altho I've run it as high as 2048x3072 (2048x1536 stacked), and |
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could tell you all about configuring xorg for the radeon driver with that. |
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In any case, for NVidia with either the slaveryware or the freedomware |
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drivers, amd64 shouldn't make a lot of difference in terms of |
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configuration. Read the documentation (xorg's and/or NVidia's, depending |
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on your drivers) and setup your xorg.conf accordingly. There's sometimes |
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a bug with eselect opengl pointing at the 32-bit headers instead of the |
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64-bit ones, for compiling xorg-server or the like, but that's not |
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dual-head related. |
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If you need help beyond that, perhaps someone else is running dual-head |
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Nvidia's. |
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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 |
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