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
800x60060.3 59.9
640x48059.9 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.
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