[NCLUG] Re: NVidia dual head

[Paul Price]

Gabriel,

I had problems with my NVidia dual head setup as well. I tried a different
version of the driver and now it works fine. I think I'm using 5332 on my
AMD system. I followed the instructions in the package.

Good luck,
Paul Price

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:42:17 -0600
From: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo at acns.colostate.edu>
Subject: [NCLUG] dualhead dvi video card w. open drivers ?
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I'm looking for a card that would let me run dual-headed dvi at
1600x1200 each, with non-proprietary drivers.

Right now, I'm stuck with an nvidia card, and

	1. the nv driver doesn't seem to allow it to run in
dual-headed mode
	2. the proprietary nvidia driver is reported to crap out on
FC2 (and I hate binary-only drivers for political reasons anyway :) )

So, I've been looking in the general direction of Matrox, and it looks
like the P650 is also proprietary-only. The 550 won't do DVI (at least
a bunch of folks I know tried and could only get it to work in analog
mode). I also heard that the 550 only does 1280x1024 in dual-headed
(analog) mode... Am I SOL, or is there another alternative ?

Oh, and I don't care (much) about 3d accel -- all I want is screen
real-estate (and freedom :) )...

Thanks much,
Gabriel