On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 06:36 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:37:38 Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > I am fairly new to FreeBSD. I use linux a lot. > > > > Am running FreeBSD 7.2 i386 with the nvidia 173 driver with an AGP > > GeForce FX 5200. > > > > > > My X works, with xinerama and two screens, perfectly, > > but as soon as I hold down any key (like Backspace to remove a line of > > text) X crashes. > > Any key? Even one that does not create scrolling on the screen? like > backspace > in an empty file? > Unless someone else has seen this, sounds really hard to debug without a > coredump :/ > The only long shot I got to offer is that nvidia provides TwinView which does > the same as Xinerama and you might want to try that out instead. There's > detailed information about it in one of the Nvidia README's.
Twinview did indeed completely solve the problem! What are the (dis)advantages of TwinView and Xinerama? Thanks! Coert _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
