dual head on an nvidia card?

[Darryl Clarke]

On 7/25/05, Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com> wrote:
> a friend of mine (roomate acctually) is trying to get dual head/dual
> monitors to work under horay with an nvidia card. he has it  "working
> right now using 2 x servers, but i am pretty sure there has to be a way
> to get it done with multiple displays. any help/guides/anything anyone
> knows of? this is the one thing that has kept him from going linux 100
> percent of the time, so ti would be great to get this working.

The nVidia README explains all the features of their driver. (assuming
you're using the nvidia module and not the kernel's nv one.)

You need to use the real nvidia driver if you want advanced 'twinview' features.

Here's my 'device' section for my dual head ti4200:

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card1"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName   "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
        Option       "NoLogo" "True"
	Option	    "TwinView"
	Option	    "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
	Option	    "MetaModes" "1600x1200, 1600x1200; 1154x864,1154x864,
1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

The important parts are the twinview option and the metamodes.

Xorg treats my dual head as one 3200x1200 display.



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