Hullo there,
I've bought a PNY geforce 7600GS graphics card, with VGA and dual link DVI. I then bought a second monitor - an HP w1907v widescreen with recommended res of 1440x900@60. The first monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 913N.
I've had a setup similar working on another computer, also running debian, with a dual head matrox card and two identical monitors. I copied the config over and after much sweat and tears, altered and tweaked according to my Xorg logs warnings and hints.
Both monitors refuse to work at the same time though. The only way I can get the widescreen to behave sensibly is using some bizarre xorg.conf.
Here is the dual head one which won't drive both monitors, followed by the odd little conf that made the widescreen work, then the conf that works for the other setup, and finally the log file. http://debian.pastebin.com/m53fa4692
The log file is full of warnings about range - it looks as though it is ignoring my conf saying to only use the 1440x900.
I'm comnpletely boggled and confused by now though.
Any hints welcome,
Thanks!
Jenny
On 24/06/2008, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
Hullo there,
I've bought a PNY geforce 7600GS graphics card, with VGA and dual link DVI. I then bought a second monitor - an HP w1907v widescreen with recommended res of 1440x900@60. The first monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 913N.
This is now working. It was a bit of a pulavah. Found I probably needed nvidia driver rather than nv. Realised i was missing the non-free in my lenny sources list, so installed that and the nvidia stuff. However, when i tried to build the nvidia module using these tools it transpired that lenny does not have the required nvidia-kernel-sources. It's in etch and sid, but not lenny. Too many dependencies were required, so that was that down the drain.
Gave up, got the proprietary driver from nvidia and had to build that, using export CC=gcc-4.1 to get compiler version same as kernel build.
Ran nvidia-xconfig --twinview. Started x and tweaked the nvidia X configuration tool. Restarted.
Shiny, happy screens!
Thanks to David and all on irc for help with this.
Jenny
"Jenny Hopkins" hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
Found I probably needed nvidia driver rather than nv.
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Gave up, got the proprietary driver from nvidia and had to build that, using export CC=gcc-4.1 to get compiler version same as kernel build.
That's a disappointing loss of freedom to fix - how did you find you needed the nvidia driver rather than nv?
Remember, binary drivers make the baby Jes^W^Wkernel developers sad! A position statement on closed-source kernel modules [LWN.net]: http://lwn.net/Articles/287056/
Regards,
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:19:47PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Remember, binary drivers make the baby Jes^W^Wkernel developers sad! A position statement on closed-source kernel modules [LWN.net]: http://lwn.net/Articles/287056/
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay
is good too. I've certainly been a lot happier with my work ATI card (dual head, no 3D used so not as worried about the support for that) since I was able to ditch the fglrx driver and just use the standard X.org radeon driver. Fewer crashes, less hassle.
J.
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