| Summary: | Dual head not detected for GE Force FX 5200 | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | John Leys <wguy4biz> |
| Component: | Driver/nVidia (open) | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | high | CC: | alexdeucher |
| Version: | 6.8.1 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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Description
John Leys
2005-05-01 23:31:21 UTC
The xorg nv driver does not support dualhead. You will need to use nvidia's binary driver to use dualhead. (In reply to comment #1) > The xorg nv driver does not support dualhead. You will need to use nvidia's > binary driver to use dualhead. Looking at the source code, it appears that the INTENTION is for nv to support dualhead, or multi-head, but I agree that the fact is you just get an error message "Requested entity is already in use!" and the driver gives up. My question is whether this is because there are serious difficulties so someone just put in the test to kill off multi-head, or is it an oversight? We have had problems trying to install nvidia's driver, so we are wondering whether making nv work is a reasonable idea, or an "previously unsolved" problem? (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > The xorg nv driver does not support dualhead. You will need to use nvidia's > > binary driver to use dualhead. > Looking at the source code, it appears that the INTENTION is for nv to > support dualhead, or multi-head, but I agree that the fact is you just get > an error message "Requested entity is already in use!" and the driver gives up. > My question is whether this is because there are serious difficulties > so someone just put in the test to kill off multi-head, or is it an oversight? > We have had problems trying to install nvidia's driver, so we are wondering > whether making nv work is a reasonable idea, or an "previously unsolved" problem? > The nv driver doesn't officially support dualhead. I haven't looked to closely at the code, but I believe Mark added some code to handle a certain degree of crtc control, but he never added full dualhead support, perhaps it is nvidia's policy to not support it in the nv driver. If there is enough information in the code to support dualhead, then by all means post a patch. I can advise you on what needs to be done to support dualhead in general. The open source BEOS nv driver supports dualhead (I believe it was based on the xfree/xorg driver), so it should be possible. |
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