twinview with nvidia FX 5200
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Aug 30 13:22:47 UTC 2007
James Pifer wrote:
> I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm trying to get twinview or clone
> working on my nvidia FX 5200 card on FC7. I have these nvidia packages
> installed:
> nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.fc7
> nvidia-graphics9755-libs-1.0_9755-87.fc7
> nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.21-22.fc7
> nvidia-graphics9755-1.0_9755-87.fc7
> nvidia-graphics9755-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7-1.0_9755-87.fc7
>
> Right now I have the display working on the SVideo port, but not on the
> DVI. I would like to see the same display on both.
>
> A couple people on the mythtv list tried to help but they had
> conflicting information. For example, I used one of their xorg.conf as a
> template, which gave me two device and two screen sections. Then the
> other guy said you should only have one of each. He made a couple
> suggestions, but not specific so I had to trial and error. I asked if he
> would share his xorg.conf and I never heard back. Maybe I still will
> since it was only yesterday.
>
> Anyway, below is my current xorg.conf. Can anyone suggest any *specific*
> changes to my xorg.conf that might get the display working on BOTH the
> SVideo and DVI ports? I'm tried of trying million changes, reboot, try
> again, etc...
Did you try running nvidia-xconfig? Also, there is no reason to reboot.
All you need do is hit Ctrl-Shift-Backspace to cause the Xserver to restart.
>
> Thanks,
> James
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "single head configuration"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "fbdevhw"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> Load "v4l"
> Load "vnc"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> #Option "RenderAccel" "1"
> # TV Out Setup
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
> Option "TwinView" "True"
> Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
> Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
> Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
> Option "UseEvents" "True"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
> Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
> Option "SecurityTypes" "VncAuth"
> Option "UserPasswdVerifier" "VncAuth"
> Option "PasswordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
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