Trying to get dualhead working, but failing bigtime

Shawn Starr shawn.starr at rogers.com
Sun Jul 30 21:28:24 PDT 2006


Unfortunately, the "nvidia" driver is proprietary. Not many people want to 
help support this driver.

Thanks, 

Shawn.

On Sunday 30 July 2006 10:17 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Xorg Version 7
> Graphics Card: nx6200tc
> Driver: 8762
> Distro: Gentoo
> Arch: amd64
>
> One DVI and one VGA output.  I don't seem to be able to fire up the DVI.
>
> Where am I going wrong?
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "Simple Layout"
>     Screen         0 "Screen0"
>     Screen         1 "Screen1" leftOf "Screen0"
>     InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>     RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/share/fonts"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load           "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension
>     SubSection     "extmod"
>         Option         "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA
> extension
>     EndSubSection
>     Load           "type1"
>     Load           "freetype"
>     Load           "glx"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Keyboard1"
>     Driver         "kbd"
>     Option         "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>     Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Mouse1"
>     Driver         "mouse"
>     Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"	# Explorer PS/2
>     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
>     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>     Option         "Emulate3Buttons"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     HorizSync       31.5 - 57.0
>     VertRefresh     50.0 - 90.0
> EndSection
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor1"
>     HorizSync       31.5 - 57.0
>     VertRefresh     50.0 - 90.0
> EndSection
>
>     Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "nvidia0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         # Edit the BusID with the location of your graphics card
>         BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
>         Screen      0
>     EndSection
>
>     Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "nvidia1"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         # Edit the BusID with the location of your graphics card
>         BusId       "PCI:5:0:0"
>         Screen      1
>     EndSection
>
>     Section "Screen"
>         Identifier  "Screen0"
>         Device      "nvidia0"
>         Monitor     "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth 24
>         Subsection "Display"
>             Depth       24
>             Modes       "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubsection
>     EndSection
>
>     Section "Screen"
>         Identifier  "Screen1"
>         Device      "nvidia1"
>         Monitor     "Monitor1"
>         DefaultDepth 24
>         Subsection "Display"
>             Depth       24
>             Modes       "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubsection
>     EndSection



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