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oblio
10-16-2002, 10:52 AM
Just wondering if anyone has tried dual head support using just one nVidia card. If the car has the standard vga out and a dvi connector I know you can get a converter/dongle that lets you hook a second crt to the card. I was wondering if anyone has tried this and what kind of results they got. Do the nVidia drivers support this? Does 3d acceleration work. THinking of going dual heas, don't want to use two cards, want nVidia (DOOMIII, UT2K3). I have an ATI Radeon VIVO 64ddr but it's kindof showing its age. CSI major and want multi-monitors for coding as having 8 windows going at a time on one display is killing me. Thanks to anyone who helps out.
DarkJedi9
10-16-2002, 11:10 AM
Do you mean that you want to use you your Radeon with the nvidia drivers and a dual head setup or are you planning to buy an nvidia card and try the dual heads? I'm 99% sure this can be done with nvidia cards or also just using two video cards, but I've never tried it myself.
bwkaz
10-16-2002, 01:44 PM
Yes, that is a supported configuration.
Look in the nVidia driver README file, in the section detailing how to set up TwinView (which I think is called nView now, but the driver options are still named TwinView, so ... yeah).
oblio
10-16-2002, 05:00 PM
I'm thinking of getting an nvidia card and using the radeon in another project. I'm wondering about performance if anyone has actually done this, especially using the nview or whatever it is called. Does it split the screen funny? I've heard that if you use two cards then xinerama tries to put login boxes in the collective center of the two monitors meaning it is split in half between the two monitors. Does the nvidia drivers do this? And the 3d acceleration is important. thanks
bwkaz
10-16-2002, 06:42 PM
When I said "a supported configuration", I meant that yes, 3D acceleration is there for TwinView/nView.
You don't have to use Xinerama with TwinView. In fact, I believe it's a better idea to not use Xinerama (although maybe not, it depends on your window manager and how it handles Xinerama -- if it puts dialogs in the center of one screen rather than in the middle of both, then you won't have problems with what you were talking about).