Core 5 multi display support

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

On 7/3/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:

> I already have a PCX5900, so if I buy the new card, it should be a case
> of install, select from list and we're done.

Hi, I have been running an nvidia card with dual head for a little
over a year and it's a breeze to set up.  Hell I was not even aware of
the abbility to run two monitors from one card untill a windows user
told me about it so I went home and did some reading on the web and
had it running in a few minutes.


Here is my xorg.conf which might help, but in general search on "Nvida
twinview" and read nvidias own docs.


# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config
#Section "Extensions"
#        Option  "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "TwinView"
	Screen      0  "Default Screen" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
	Option	    "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "1"
	Option	    "AllowClosedownGrabs" "1"
	Option	    "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "i2c"
	Load  "bitmap"
	Load  "ddc"
	#Load	"dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "int10"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "vbe"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "CoreKeyboard"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "CorePointer"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

	Identifier   "Direction L7"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	HorizSync    28.0 - 64.0
	VertRefresh  43.0 - 60.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600XT]"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "RenderAccel" "true"
	Option	    "Backingstore" "true"
#	Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
	Option	    "NvAgp" "2"
	Option	    "CursorShadow" "1"
	Option	    "Coolbits" "1"
	Option	    "ConnectedMonitor" "crt, crt"
	Option	    "TwinView" "1"
	Option	    "Metamodes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768;
1280x1024,NULL; 1024x768,NULL"
#	Option		"Metamodes" "1280x1024,1024x768 @1024x1024;
1024x768,1024x768; 1280x1024,NULL; 1024x768,NULL"
	Option	    "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31-70"
	Option	    "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-120"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Default Screen"
	Device     "NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600XT]"
	Monitor    "Direction L7"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode         0666
EndSection




-- 
Rob