> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, William D. Hamblen wrote: > >>> The dualhead FireGL cards with dual-DVI do not work dualhead with DVI >>> output because the second output aparently uses a secondary TMDS >>> transmitter which is not built into the main ASIC, and it >>> isn't yet supported by the XFree86 driver. >> >>Yeesh, I had assumed that those would work given their target market >> and cost (not that I was considering one). Good to know though, >> thanks. >> >>Mike, do you have any information about the NVidia Quadro NVS 280 - >> which is part of the Redhat certified Dell Precision Workstation 360n? >> If it doesn't work dual-DVI, > > The XFree86 4.3.0 nv driver doesn't fully support DVI properly > nor autodetect it on all hardware. I don't believe the nv driver > supports dualhead at all, but I've never tried it nor received > feedback from people wanting to do that. > > So this type of setup is not supported. I believe most if not > all people who are using such setups, use the proprietary driver > anyway. > > >>that might be worthy of a comment in the hardware compatibility >>list. > > I'm not involved in any way with the Red Hat hardware > compatibility list, or adding or removing data from it. As far > as video is concerned though, I am more or less the hardware > compatibility list, regardless of what any HCL may or may not > include. ;o) > > > > -- > Mike A. Harris > Hi! I run the exact setup Mr. Hamblen described, using the ATI proprietary driver Mr. Harris mentions. It works great, though it's a pain in some ways. For instance, you have to re-compile it each time you install an updated kernel, and the RPM contains files that conflict with XFree86 MesaGL, so I had to --force --nodeps it (suggestions on what I SHOULD have done are welcome, RPM is still a little mysterious to me). If you really want dual-DVI (with hardware, even), you might want to consider going over to the dark side and try the ATI driver. -Tim _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
