Trying to get dualhead working, but failing bigtime

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/31/06, Trevor Rhodes <trevor at rhodes-online.net> wrote:
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> Shawn Starr wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the "nvidia" driver is proprietary. Not many people want to
> > help support this driver.
>
> Can anyone get my dualhead working with this card NOT using the
> proprietary driver?

the open nv driver doesn't support dualhead at the moment.

Alex

>
>
> > On Sunday 30 July 2006 10:17 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> Xorg Version 7
> >> Graphics Card: nx6200tc
> >> Driver: 8762
> >> Distro: Gentoo
> >> Arch: amd64
> >>
> >> One DVI and one VGA output.  I don't seem to be able to fire up the DVI.
> >>
> >> Where am I going wrong?
> >>
> >> Section "ServerLayout"
> >>     Identifier     "Simple Layout"
> >>     Screen         0 "Screen0"
> >>     Screen         1 "Screen1" leftOf "Screen0"
> >>     InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> >>     InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Files"
> >>     RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
> >>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
> >>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
> >>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
> >>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
> >>     FontPath        "/usr/local/share/fonts"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Module"
> >>     Load           "dbe"     # Double buffer extension
> >>     SubSection     "extmod"
> >>         Option         "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA
> >> extension
> >>     EndSubSection
> >>     Load           "type1"
> >>     Load           "freetype"
> >>     Load           "glx"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >>     Identifier     "Keyboard1"
> >>     Driver         "kbd"
> >>     Option         "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
> >>     Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
> >>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
> >>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >>     Identifier     "Mouse1"
> >>     Driver         "mouse"
> >>     Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" # Explorer PS/2
> >>     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
> >>     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> >>     Option         "Emulate3Buttons"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Monitor"
> >>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
> >>     HorizSync       31.5 - 57.0
> >>     VertRefresh     50.0 - 90.0
> >> EndSection
> >> Section "Monitor"
> >>     Identifier     "Monitor1"
> >>     HorizSync       31.5 - 57.0
> >>     VertRefresh     50.0 - 90.0
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >>     Section "Device"
> >>         Identifier  "nvidia0"
> >>         Driver      "nvidia"
> >>         # Edit the BusID with the location of your graphics card
> >>         BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
> >>         Screen      0
> >>     EndSection
> >>
> >>     Section "Device"
> >>         Identifier  "nvidia1"
> >>         Driver      "nvidia"
> >>         # Edit the BusID with the location of your graphics card
> >>         BusId       "PCI:5:0:0"
> >>         Screen      1
> >>     EndSection
> >>
> >>     Section "Screen"
> >>         Identifier  "Screen0"
> >>         Device      "nvidia0"
> >>         Monitor     "Monitor0"
> >>         DefaultDepth 24
> >>         Subsection "Display"
> >>             Depth       24
> >>             Modes       "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >>         EndSubsection
> >>     EndSection
> >>
> >>     Section "Screen"
> >>         Identifier  "Screen1"
> >>         Device      "nvidia1"
> >>         Monitor     "Monitor1"
> >>         DefaultDepth 24
> >>         Subsection "Display"
> >>             Depth       24
> >>             Modes       "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >>         EndSubsection
> >>     EndSection
> >
>
>
> - --
>
>  Regards
>       Trevor Rhodes
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