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Wednesday July 26, 2006

XOrg with nVidia Geforce Go 6600TE/6200TE Not so long ago, my old laptop died, a Tecra M2, and I'd obtained a Tecra M3 to replace it with. Loading Solaris was no problem, I've been running build 32 for some time with wifi, inetmenu to configure it. I'd been using a ... roundabout method to work with projectors when showing things to customers, but I finally sat down to set up TwinView recently. The full xorg.conf can be found here, but the pertinent part under the "Screen" section is:

Option         "TwinView" "True"
    Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
    Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-70"
    Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-85"
    Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "True"
    Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600"
    Option         "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, CRT-0"

I've not gotten all the resolutions to work, but the 1024x768 res seems to be fine with every projector I've encountered. That's good enough for slide shows, but I'd like to get it set up with 1280x1024 for software demos. Other notes, this is with the latest nVidia driver, 1.0-8762 as of this writing, and with the BIOS setting for the flat panel to send display to both CRT and DFP. ( Jul 26 2006, 12:00:53 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

Hey Matt-- I also have an M3. Do you have problems where if it powers down the display panel, you have to close the lid and open it up again?

Also, do you know if the other kind of twinview (where you get two screens bonded together) works with this card? Or how to set that up?

Posted by Dan Price on July 26, 2006 at 01:10 PM PDT #

Hey Dan! The other kinds of TwinView, LeftOf and RightOf, should also work with this chip, as I found other people using it. It seems the real trick is the "ConnectedMonitor" option in case you're starting X up without the other monitor connected. The nVidia README seems to cover most of these options pretty well. Unfortunately, I ended up with a large number of configs that seemed okay to me and the Xorg process (there were no errors in the Xorg.0.log in /var/log), but displayed garbage on the screen [an interesting black-then-white washing effect:) ].

If you're doing that though, you'll likely have a different set of metamodes. For instance, if you had the DFP at 1400x1050 (it's native) and the RightOf at 1280x1024, I believe you'd have:

Option         “ConnectedMonitor“ “DFP-0, CRT-0”
Option         “MetaModes“ “1400×1050, 1280×1024"

Posted by Matt Ingenthron on July 26, 2006 at 02:55 PM PDT #

I neglected to answer your first question (and realized it after I had to close/open the lid to get a login prompt), but yes, I do have that problem. It's an improvement over the older behavior, where after waking it up with the mouse/keyboard with the lid open, you'd get complete garbage (though colorful) on the screen until you'd close/open the lid.

Posted by Matt Ingenthron on July 26, 2006 at 10:46 PM PDT #

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