Trying to get dualhead working, but failing bigtime

[Trevor Rhodes]

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Shawn Starr wrote:
> Unfortunately, the "nvidia" driver is proprietary. Not many people want to 
> help support this driver.

Can anyone get my dualhead working with this card NOT using the
proprietary driver?


> 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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