I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and my old dual head config of a RIVA TNT2 & S3 Trio64 no longer wants to work for some unknown reason. To that end I'm looking at buying a new dual head card to replace them with. I've tried a MGA G400 with limited success as the secondary display is blotchy. I've tried googling for xorg supported hardware with little to no results. Can anyone suggest a card that will work? Cheers Jodi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (BA, A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group Ph: +64 7 838 4323 email: jodi(a)waikato.ac.nz "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
Hi, I used a G450 about four years ago with LINUX and dual head, I think Michael Cree still does (don't correct me if I'm wrong Michael :-) ). It was no hassle at that stage, I used the Matrox drivers (download at web page). Arne Jodi Thomson wrote:
I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and my old dual head config of a RIVA TNT2 & S3 Trio64 no longer wants to work for some unknown reason. To that end I'm looking at buying a new dual head card to replace them with. I've tried a MGA G400 with limited success as the secondary display is blotchy. I've tried googling for xorg supported hardware with little to no results. Can anyone suggest a card that will work?
Cheers Jodi
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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
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On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:49, Jodi Thomson wrote:
I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and my old dual head config of a RIVA TNT2 & S3 Trio64 no longer wants to work for some unknown reason. To that end I'm looking at buying a new dual head card to replace them with. I've tried a MGA G400 with limited success as the secondary display is blotchy. I've tried googling for xorg supported hardware with little to no results. Can anyone suggest a card that will work?
I haven't got a system running the X.org server yet, but the GeForce FX cards work great in XFree86, and later releases of nvidia's driver claim to support FC2 too. -- Colin Palmer <colinp(a)waikato.ac.nz> University of Waikato, ITS Division
I've tried googling for xorg supported hardware with little to no results. Can anyone suggest a card that will work?
I haven't got a system running the X.org server yet, but the GeForce FX cards work great in XFree86, and later releases of nvidia's driver claim to support FC2 too.
The nVidia "TwinView" technology has been supported for some time by their Linux drivers. It is documented well in the README file that comes with the drivers. Hopefully it should work as well as it does under windows. I use it all the time at home. DVI into my LCD and Analogue into my Projector. Pretty much every nVidia card supports twinview back to about the GeForce 2 so you shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get a twin head capable box. I know Gainward do a twin DVI capable GF FX card if you have two LCD screens. Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com
Many thanks to all those who replied. NVidia appeared to be the most logical choice based upon driver support so I put in an order for a GForce FX. Today I took possession of a brand new Gainward FX Powerpack Pro/660 TV/DVI 128MB DDR which uses the GeForce FX 5200 chipset. After installing the card I booted the machine into FC2 single user mode and reconfigured xorg.conf to use the new card in dual head mode. I added 'nv' as the driver in the Screen sections given that I previously had a TNT2. However once I had rebooted X packed a sad and so I wandered off to NVidia's site to check out the latest drivers Drivers for linux were easily found directly from their drivers page. Once there I clicked on the link for the latest IA32 drivers and downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run. I then clicked on the link to README.txt and followed instructions Installation was very straightforward: # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run This brought up an ncurses based gui which guided me through the install... As there was no pre-compiled kernel module for my current kernel (2.6.8-1.521) within the package it asked me if it could access nvidia's ftp site to see if it could find one there. This was unsuccessful also so it kindly compiled one for me, warning that the kernel had been built with riva_fb as a module which could cause the display to work incorrectly if also loaded. Once the module had been compiled it was then loaded successfully into the kernel and the script completed The README.txt pointed out that the driver was no longer called 'nv' but 'nvidia'. I altered this within xorg.conf and restarted X. Viola dual-display I'm currently running 1280x1024 on both monitors (19" CRT) with no discernible flicker and a nice crisp display. NVidia has my thumbs up. Cheers Jodi On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:49, Jodi Thomson wrote:
I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and my old dual head config of a RIVA TNT2 & S3 Trio64 no longer wants to work for some unknown reason. To that end I'm looking at buying a new dual head card to replace them with. I've tried a MGA G400 with limited success as the secondary display is blotchy. I've tried googling for xorg supported hardware with little to no results. Can anyone suggest a card that will work?
Cheers Jodi
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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
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Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (BA, A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group Ph: +64 7 838 4323 email: jodi(a)waikato.ac.nz "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) mQGiBEE7vXkRBADqdMs07cJuvCn02bG8FSR2iOW2V8M7KB0v5vnmkVI/DPsbbCxf dE23r/6ag1kYS8R8WvnYNUkjOoTKXslmLPFnq6+7Rp3K7g6X4dKyXknGThfai9KW kfdurINrR8FVKvIieidXNrAzl2ADquQ0WPtJCI1KbRb2kL3/tW6AumRS5wCg5fmM kW6Ml3RRfKGqSBRCOfVl7P0D/iCrQjXTskuT0mU/7ZJCQlP09PO5SDoe1vUX2tiB WlbmDnm4t46V1QATybUKM/V8J5rVOsigO/Nv/+9W8VC0KhBs8BR1lVT3jFy91pXr k9MhhjDjb6nhpeM771jdpOFYt+g+Lq/Q5MXKoAIxrEoycKM3JoI/yPwixoJWZlgx CdsvBADRnk/JAPNsWrjfCxLXcpE9b6x/pINncoCK+NKf16ONfw5ArkdFhJdWeJss nOvfEcBzY2RdJOJ5mQA8XnXoeGWrreT5TTUMsvoCF5/UJ1Zuuu0L8hOw0DKg9W0m QwbA7qkDZC9lMqCLmp6YreJydJAr2cp7U0p/d1Fpwd/lhH56LLQtSm9kaSBBbmRl cnNvbiAoV29yayBLZXkpIDxqb2RpQHdhaWthdG8uYWMubno+iF4EExECAB4FAkE7 vXkCGwMGCwkIBwMCAxUCAwMWAgECHgECF4AACgkQXzBud+/fPrsh2gCg4vHHtmbV R9rO8q5c+rbkAalwFmkAoJAAApKfPVHveqHJjVxNGfMXMlCAuQENBEE7vXsQBACf gUZY022ewIUzn3Zi4tcI7H2RXBEbYArtqXtuKdsMZm4N6TygINA4R5KsXF9xe3g7 VNioVVlgbA4h7L4xgt4TOjIxeZSEFuhQKAZ/isqGV9njeCJHhsX75jT0TcacQtNJ JST5IO70Ll6f1j8ZujZlNvUMz5lUTBIKR3XZ1+XlzwADBQQAg03LfdqvmDV1I9jD w7mNJfomW2FBE6Pt0h0oCocEecl4K86fySrjxzFoZW/NEcchvkWHG4Fd/Vr4fSRe aPfABzmFnJCN0YprOvv1cJHnckkSRpvGkHNmfcOH2mC+Tf/GGyi2n6wCe6bk/030 D/qYX3zBxR3SyHJvj5kRYBSt1ayISQQYEQIACQUCQTu9ewIbDAAKCRBfMG53798+ u7AWAKDhkU/ZlKYC+XkkHpAPs7Brf5c9PACgu9GBbiQW834G0lEHzEVYib1mgIM= =tr0I -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
If you want even slicker nvidia driver support add the livna.org yum/apt repository to your yum.conf and install their nvidia packages. They have some nice scripts that fall back to the nv driver if they can't locate nvidia kernel module on boot. Useful when you've upgraded your kernel and havn't done the driver yet. It is what I use on FC1. And livna.org has lots of other nice rpms for media playback and stuff too, eg, totem, xine, mplayer etc. Regards On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:17, Jodi Anderson wrote:
Many thanks to all those who replied. NVidia appeared to be the most logical choice based upon driver support so I put in an order for a GForce FX. Today I took possession of a brand new Gainward FX Powerpack Pro/660 TV/DVI 128MB DDR which uses the GeForce FX 5200 chipset.
After installing the card I booted the machine into FC2 single user mode and reconfigured xorg.conf to use the new card in dual head mode. I added 'nv' as the driver in the Screen sections given that I previously had a TNT2. However once I had rebooted X packed a sad and so I wandered off to NVidia's site to check out the latest drivers
Drivers for linux were easily found directly from their drivers page. Once there I clicked on the link for the latest IA32 drivers and downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run. I then clicked on the link to README.txt and followed instructions
Installation was very straightforward:
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run
This brought up an ncurses based gui which guided me through the install...
As there was no pre-compiled kernel module for my current kernel (2.6.8-1.521) within the package it asked me if it could access nvidia's ftp site to see if it could find one there. This was unsuccessful also so it kindly compiled one for me, warning that the kernel had been built with riva_fb as a module which could cause the display to work incorrectly if also loaded.
Once the module had been compiled it was then loaded successfully into the kernel and the script completed
The README.txt pointed out that the driver was no longer called 'nv' but 'nvidia'. I altered this within xorg.conf and restarted X. Viola dual-display
I'm currently running 1280x1024 on both monitors (19" CRT) with no discernible flicker and a nice crisp display. NVidia has my thumbs up.
Cheers Jodi
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:49, Jodi Thomson wrote:
I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and my old dual head config of a RIVA TNT2 & S3 Trio64 no longer wants to work for some unknown reason. To that end I'm looking at buying a new dual head card to replace them with. I've tried a MGA G400 with limited success as the secondary display is blotchy. I've tried googling for xorg supported hardware with little to no results. Can anyone suggest a card that will work?
Cheers Jodi
------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (BA, A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group Ph: +64 7 838 4323 email: jodi(a)waikato.ac.nz
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
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