On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/28/2011 05:07 PM, Jason Melton wrote: >> >> It may be a card-specific or similar issue? >> > > Possibly? This is a standard old 8600GT with 512M of GDDR3. It has been > rock solid with all driver up to the last two months or so. I'm suspecting > the new xorg changes that have also caused problem not only with nvidia, but > ATI as well. > I am running similar hardware with similar drivers in a dual head (twinview) setup with no issues as described now or ever in the past. I use two 1680x1050 displays connected via DVI cables. Package versions are below but are the standard testing packages. I don't run KDE, just XMonad and xcompmgr. $ lspci | grep GeForce 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1) $ pacman -Qi nvidia | grep Version Version : 270.30-4 $ pacman -Qi kernel26 | grep Version Version : 2.6.38.1-1 Regards, Mike