William Kucharski wrote: > I've recently installed a new generic PC containing a Quadro NVS 290, > but my dual monitor setup no longer works. > > Specifically, monitor 2 is a Dell 2001 FP. > > The NVidia driver correctly probes the monitor, but trying to drive it > at its native 1600x1200 at 60 Hz fails to bring the monitor out of sleep > mode. > > I can reduce the resolution to 1280x1024, and that will wake up the > second monitor, but as that's a non-native resolution it looks horrible. > > This same setup worked fine with an older Nvidia card in an Ultra 20, > so it appears to be an issue with the Quadro NVS 290 and Twinview. > > (I also when playing with this get lots of errors about bad metamodes.) > > Is this a known bug? NVIDIA has released an updated VBIOS for the Quadro NVS 290 which fixes this problem. I suspect it will also fix the related GLX crash:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9486 I need to do a lot of testing plus find out the proper way to fix cards in the field.
