John Martin wrote: > William Kucharski wrote: >> I've recently installed a new generic PC containing a Quadro NVS 290, >> but my dual monitor setup no longer works. >> >> Specifically, monitor 2 is a Dell 2001 FP. >> >> The NVidia driver correctly probes the monitor, but trying to drive >> it at its native 1600x1200 at 60 Hz fails to bring the monitor out of >> sleep mode. >> >> I can reduce the resolution to 1280x1024, and that will wake up the >> second monitor, but as that's a non-native resolution it looks horrible. >> >> This same setup worked fine with an older Nvidia card in an Ultra 20, >> so it appears to be an issue with the Quadro NVS 290 and Twinview. >> >> (I also when playing with this get lots of errors about bad metamodes.) >> >> Is this a known bug? > NVIDIA has released an updated VBIOS for the Quadro NVS 290 which > fixes this problem. I suspect it will also fix the related GLX crash: > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9486 > > > I need to do a lot of testing plus find out the proper way > to fix cards in the field.
I've verified the new Quadro NVS 290 VBIOS fixes the problem with 1600x1200 displays. With great care, the VBIOS can be field upgraded with this program (internal access only for now): http://solaris-x86.eng/nVIDIA/nvbios/nvs290.zip Extract the files nvs290.exe and cwsdpmi.exe to a DOS bootable floppy or USB drive. Boot off this drive and run nvs290.exe. I suspect this will also fix OpenSolaris bug 9486 but I have not been able to reproduce this on my system.
