From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 23:51:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE83D16A4A0 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5432143D68 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:51:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18526 invoked by uid 399); 1 Nov 2006 23:51:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2006 23:51:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4549330E.20206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:51:42 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Elmore References: <45491BA7.7070003@FreeBSD.org> <20061101223315.GB41083@interwoven.com> In-Reply-To: <20061101223315.GB41083@interwoven.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 620 w/docking station won't do X on the external monitor X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:51:46 -0000 Andrew Elmore wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:11:51PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> FWIW, I have a nice new nvidia card in this laptop, and I'm using the >> nv driver in X because it's a core 2 duo, and I want to try to stick >> with amd64. If the only way I can get this to work is to switch to >> i386 and the nvidia drivers, I'll do that, but I'd rather not. (My >> ultimate goal is to get X working dual-head with Xinerama, or maybe >> TwinView the same way it works in windows, but I'll settle for X on >> the external monitor for now.) > > I haven't had much luck setting up dual-head with the nv driver on > amd64. There's a xorg bug filed about it: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190 > > I've heard that ATI graphics are the only option for dual-head support > on amd64, since everything else seems to depend on i386-only proprietary > blobs. Argh, thanks. Be nice to at least get it working on the external monitor, but at least I won't waste any more time on the dual-head stuff. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection