John Martin wrote: > 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 If you aren't in the .eng domain, use:
http://solaris-x86.sfbay/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. > > >
