On Thursday 25 March 2010 04:14:09 Tim Gustafson wrote: > My workstation runs FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64. I have Xorg 1.6.5 and > an nVidia GeForce 5200 dual head video card. > > Currently the first head of the card is operating well using the "nv" > driver. I tried to compile the nvidia-driver port, but it tells me > that I need nvidia-driver-173 because the 5200 chipset isn't > supported by the current driver. When I go to compile > nvidia-driver-173 it tells me that it is not supported under the > amd64 architecture. I can't switch to an i386 kernel because I need > the amd64 architecture to take advantage of all my RAM and also > because I am using ZFS on this workstation, which more or less > requires the amd64 architecture. > > So, I have two questions: > > 1. Is there any way to get the nvidia-driver-173 port to work with my > amd64 OS? > > 2. Is there any way to get the second head of the 5200 video card to > work using the nv driver? I tried adding a second device section to > xorg.conf but the system errors out telling me that it tried to use > conflicting hardware. I've attached both my xorg.conf and my > Xorg.0.log file to this message.
For dual head you need xrandr 1.2 I believe and I'm not sure the nv driver supports that for your card. You could check by running xrandr in a terminal window. It should list the different outputs of your graphics card. In my case: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1280 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 60.0 59.9 800x600 60.3 59.9 640x480 59.9 59.4 S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) This means I have outputs "VGA-0", "LVDS" and "S-video". All you need in xorg.conf is a monitor section for each of these outputs with the Identifier string matching an output name. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Ouput0" # set this to an output like "VGA-0" VendorName "NEC" ModelName "MultiSync LCD 195VX" HorizSync 30.0 - 50.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 63.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Output1" # set this to an output like "VGA-1" VendorName "NEC" ModelName "MultiSync LCD 195VX" HorizSync 30.0 - 50.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 63.0 Option "DPMS" Option "RightOf" "Output0" # set this to an output like "VGA-0" EndSection If the nv driver doesn't seem to support xrandr 1.2, you could give the nouveau driver a try. _______________________________________________ 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"
