Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Nvidia driver and Twinview mode for dualhead displays

Cool. So you have full 3d acceleration then across all four of your
screens? What about video?

When are they going to start selling monitors without a seam on one
side. So you'd buy a right side and left side monitor pair. Even if
they could get it down to like a couple millimeters it would be great.


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:27:45PM GMT, Richard Knepper [rknepper@indiana.edu] said the following:
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> Yeah, my four-head xorg.conf (attached)has two "Device" Sections (one for
> each two-output card, with twinview settings for the second output on each
> card) and two "Screen" sections. Nvidia includes an explanation of every
> nvidia-specific option in the proprietary driver package (on my systems,
> this gets dropped into /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers).
>
> Rich
>
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Mark Krenz wrote:
>
> >
> > That's what I was wondering, if you could use twinview to combine more
> >than 2 monitors. Guess not. I wonder if you could have two sets of
> >twinview dualhead displays.
> >
> > The 9 screens (actually 10 today because I brough in my laptop) don't
> >give me sun burn, but they do require a good chiropractor.
> >
> >On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:11:29AM GMT, Matt Standish
> >[mstandish@gmail.com] said the following:
> >>Sweet... I am using 2 NVidia cards with 4 monitors. Both pairs are
> >>twinview and then I joined them with xinerama, no 3d this way though.
> >>That 9 screen display must give sun burn :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>On 5/8/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You have a quad display on one system? Wow! How does that work
> >>>exactly?
> >>>
> >>> BTW, since we're comparing, I actually have a 9 screen synergy setup
> >>>at work. I can't take a picture of it due to policies at Cook, but its
> >>>pretty sweet. 9 screens across 5 computers. Linux, Mac and Windows.
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:40:33AM GMT, Matt Standish
> >>>[mstandish@gmail.com] said the following:
> >>>>Yes, I have a few configs. Sax2 in Suse will detect it automagicaly
> >>>>and install twinview. I also have a quad display.
> >>>>
> >>>>On 5/8/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyone else here running the Nvidia proprietary drivers in the
> >>>>>Twinview mode for dualhead diplays?
> >>>>>
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> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "X.org Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "Xinerama" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
> #ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefont"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ukr"
> FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "extmod"
> # Load "dri"
> Load "glx"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "type1"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "xtt"
> EndSection
>
> # Section "Extensions"
> # Option "Composite" "Enable"
> # Option "Render" "Enable"
> # EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Buttons" "10"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> HorizSync 24 - 80
> VertRefresh 49 - 75
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor1"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> HorizSync 24 - 80
> VertRefresh 49 - 75
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
> BoardName "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> Option "Twinview" "true"
> Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24 - 80"
> Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "49 - 75"
> Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200"
> #Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
> Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card1"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
> BoardName "Unknown Board"
> BusID "PCI:5:2:0"
> #Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
> Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> Option "Twinview" "true"
> Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24-80"
> Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "49-75"
> Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> # SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 1
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 4
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 8
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 15
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 16
> #EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "Card1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> DefaultDepth 24
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 1
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 4
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 8
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 15
> #EndSubSection
> #SubSection "Display"
> #Viewport 0 0
> #Depth 16
> #EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection


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