Jack J. Woehr wrote:
Excuse my ignorance. I plug in my Dell monitor digitally and it says
the video is in power-saving mode. The analog port works. What
can I read to learn how to tell OpenBSD to use the digital port
on the NVidia card, please?
from dmesg:
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vga1 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500" rev 0xa1
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
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In part, it depends on how you got it to work... Assuming you are using
the X.org nv driver, 'man nv' tells much. See things like:
Option "FlatPanel" "boolean"
Option "CrtcNumber" "integer"
As I recall with a DVI-connector only nv card, I HAD to have the DVI
monitor plugged in at power-on for the thing to recognize it, otherwise
it talked analog (out the DVI connector) (I do believe the above would
fix that).
As far as I can tell, with the nv driver, you get to pick EITHER video
port on a multi-port card, but not both. I'd welcome someone 1) telling
me I'm wrong /and/ 2) proving it, by showing me an xorg.conf file that
works with a two-port nVidia card on OpenBSD without blob, of course.
Two (or three) heads works fine on two (or three) video cards, in fact,
the nv multi-head/multi-card setup was the easiest I've done, but can't
seem to get both heads going on my Quadro cards.
Nick.
