Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:26:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going multi-headed with nvidia 7900GS card and 6-STABLE/amd64 ... Message-ID: <854549.20651.qm@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <40D707389F9B4C9027B72D44@fserv.hub.org>
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--- "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> wrote: > > You should try the ports nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig and > > nvidia-settings (pkg_add -r <port name>)... > > This is the dilemna ... the new computer is 64bit, and nvidia doesn't support > FreeBSD/64bit due to a myriad of problems with FreeBSD :( Apparently there > is a group on the FreeBSD side trying to address this, but the nVidia side > doesn't seem to hold much hope in it getting in in time for 7.x, so 6.x > is a ways out yet :( > Ohoh... R u sure, that the regular nvidia xorg driver (nv) doesnt support dual head? I found this: http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-May/000685.html (but it seems to be more than 3 years old) This seems to be newer: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-nv.git;a=commit;h=51c6425bea6e4ef02f7b76e58e759f99b0e993e8 -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222
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