From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 16:26:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EBA16A421 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5727E13C46A for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 21599 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2007 16:26:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Eqzf9sAPHqWwEMvaL8PsbyNvFd1zsPdwICiZI99aTWga2oPBlBkjQ3exuwb1ftKmVjyrB6GJYMcxzHlSZvtG7Oa9LygB585rJA0WnPw39AOG8Dtzyfr5KLZ5eCKE4zRs+hl4iJpKZmj2D3JllXRlT0zxMPuw8z5YAdwg76M8yYc=; X-YMail-OSG: G9xXzMkVM1k15iX7wTW6sC_3QGAA5OqE5HTRRPyLeyVY8B6__7NB5LeZCZU.NNTrF3vWwwb7l4W1vHGMds4RACNvAB7OESZK.dhJBehdJ_1k_sryyf9wKuJNCo1Z8Q-- Received: from [84.141.95.25] by web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:26:01 PDT Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:26:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" To: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <40D707389F9B4C9027B72D44@fserv.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <854549.20651.qm@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Going multi-headed with nvidia 7900GS card and 6-STABLE/amd64 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:26:03 -0000 --- "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > You should try the ports nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig and > > nvidia-settings (pkg_add -r )... > > 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