On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> >
> > > I have a multi-head GeForce2 MX card with two VGA outputs.
> [...]
> > The "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 does not support the
> > second output on the GeForce2 MX.
>
> The driver documentation should definitely be updated. 'man nv' says
> "multi-head configurations are supported", which certainly led me to
> believe that my multihead GeForce2 card would be supported.
It means "multi-head" in the traditional sense of the word -
multiple cards. This wording was in place in the nv driver and
other drivers before dual-output cards existed. Even the wording
in the mga driver meant multiple cards at the time it was written.
>
> > Only the "nvidia" driver for
> > Linux available from NVIDIA's web site can use the second output.
>
> Why is it that this is not supported? Is it something I could fix w/ a
> little hacking?
If it could be fixed with a little hacking it would be done already.
Unfortunately, it is quite alot of work and I'm not working on it.
Mark.
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