On Monday 13 February 2006 20:52, michael hast wrote:
> Jason Boxman wrote:
> >Levi Bard said:
> >>On 2/12/06, michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>If you're using a debian standard kernel, you can use the nvidia-glx
> >>and associated packages from apt. The executable packages from
> >>nvidia.com are more for roll-your-owners.
> >
> >Yes, that's probably the best way to go.
> >
> >You're stuck with the older 7174 drivers, though, if you're running
> > Stable. The newer drivers, at least in Sid, require a recent version of
> > nvidia-glx which you'd also have to pull from Sid, along with most of
> > Sid. If you don't plan on playing games it probably doesn't matter,
> > though. 7174 has been stable for me for a year.
>
> Cool! All I want thls bad-boy to do for me is run the dual-heads with
> decent response time. No, I have not done much in the way of gaming,
> and although I'm not opposed to the idea, I'm not rushing into that
> anytime soon, either. I will try that and see how it goes. Any other
> tips on getting the dual-head configured properly? I'm starting from
> scratch on this one. Thanks, guys!
Works For Me (tm):
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LefOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1152x864,1152x864;NULL,1152x864"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "Nologo" "true"
EndSection
The second meta mode was supposedly to force off a display so gnucash doesn't
have squashed graphs (It thinks my display is 1152x864*2 which I guess it
really is, but most apps have a concept of a 'screen' size) but it just turns
off the part of the framebuffer. kghostview has the same issue. I haven't
encountered the problem with any others I use, though.
--Jason Boxman http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff
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