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From: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 6:38 am

Hi folks.

I have 4.5 GENERIC.MP on my machine and I'd like to have it dual-head.

My dmesg is at the bottom, if you want more information or output, I'll give that.

I tried to setup new xorg.conf with two screens but without any luck.

I also googled for any idea, but it also fails.

It works on linux with modified config, but I don't want it on my machines.

Every idea or question is welcome. Thanks.


OpenBSD 4.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #63: Tue Feb 10 07:57:12 MST 2009

    todd@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP

cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.80 GHz

cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,

SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR

real mem  = 2146988032 (2047MB)

avail mem = 2067771392 (1971MB)

mainbus0 at root

bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 11/08/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfac20, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0100 (39 entries)

bios0: vendor Award Software International, Inc. version "F6" date 11/08/2005

bios0: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 8I945GMF

acpi0 at bios0: rev 0

acpi0: tables DSDT FACP MCFG APIC

acpi0: wakeup devices PEX0(S5) PEX1(S5) PEX2(S5) PEX3(S5) PEX4(S5) PEX5(S5) HUB0(S5) USB0(S1) USB1(S1) USB2(S1) USB3(S1) USBE

(S1) AC97(S5) MC97(S5) AZAL(S5) PCI0(S5)

acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits

acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat

cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)

cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz

cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)

cpu1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.80 GHz

cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,

SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR

ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins

ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 2

acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)

acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEX0)

acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 3 (PEX1)

acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX2)

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From: Fred Crowson <fred.crowson@...>
To: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 8:09 am

have you tried xrandr(1)?


HTH


Fred
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From: Tobias Sarnowski <sarnowski@...>
To: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Monday, March 30, 2009 - 3:22 am

Hi Kamil,


maybe I missed the point but the option "DualHead" works fine if using

the "nv" driver. If I remember correctly it is necessary to have the

same resolution on both monitors when working with DualHead.


  42 Section "Monitor"

  43         #DisplaySize      380   300     # mm

  44         Identifier   "Monitor0"

  45         VendorName   "HSD"

  46         ModelName    "Hanns.G HQ191"

  47         HorizSync    30.0 - 80.0

  48         VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0

  49         Option      "DPMS"

  50 EndSection

  51

  52 Section "Device"

  53         ### Available Driver options are:-

  54         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",

  55         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"

  56         ### [arg]: arg optional

  57         #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]

  58         Option     "HWcursor" "true"            # [<bool>]

  59         Option     "NoAccel" "false"                    # [<bool>]

  60         #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]

  61         #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]

  62         #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]

  63         #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>

  64         #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]

  65         #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]

  66         #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>

  67         #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]

  68         #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>

  69         Option     "DualHead" "true"            # [<bool>]

  70         Option     "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

  71         Identifier  "Card0"

  72         Driver      "nv"

  73         VendorName  "NVIDIA"

  74         BoardName   "GeForce 7300 GS"

  75         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

  76 EndSection


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Tobias Sarnowski / software developmen...
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From: Peter <syllopsium@...>
To: Openbsd Misc (E-mail) <misc@...>
Cc: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Monday, March 30, 2009 - 6:57 am

This is my xorg.conf which works on the 4.4 snapshot I was running.

Unfortunately I can't get three screens going, and the 4.5 snapshot I

tried to upgrade to on Friday is currently crashing on startup, so I

can't tell if it's any better yet. This may well be a factor, as my

xorg.conf is pretty straightforward :


Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier     "X.org Configured"

    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"

        Screen      2  "Screen2" LeftOf "Screen0"

    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection


Section "Files"

    ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"

    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

EndSection


Section "Module"

    Load  "dbe"

    Load  "dri"

    Load  "extmod"

    Load  "glx"

    Load  "freetype"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Keyboard0"

    Driver      "kbd"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Mouse0"

    Driver      "mouse"

    Option        "Protocol" "wsmouse"

    Option        "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"

    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"

    Identifier   "Monitor0"

    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"

    ModelName    "Monitor Model"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"

    Identifier   "Monitor1"

    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"

    ModelName    "Monitor Model"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"

        Identifier   "Monitor2"

        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"

        ModelName    "Monitor Model"

EndSection


section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-

        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",

        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f...
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From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@...>
To: Peter <syllopsium@...>
Cc: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>, Openbsd Misc (E-mail) <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 12:31 pm

Unfortunately I have to inform you that months and months ago X.org

broke multi-card X for everyone, and they have not fixed it yet.


Until they fix that, you can only use one video card.


They have shown strong reluctance to fix the damage.


Go to their mailing lists and complain.
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From: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
To: Tobias Sarnowski <sarnowski@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 7:21 am

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:22:52 +0200

Thanks Tobias,

this is exactly what I need, I tried to set DualHead option to true option, but I still get one working screen, maybe I did it without quotes. Thanks all you guys for help.

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Kamil Monticolo
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From: Didier Wiroth <dwiroth@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Monday, March 30, 2009 - 4:51 am

Hi,


Well, I use an ATI card, so it is for the archive ... may be it is of any help

for the nvidia users?!


1) See my xorg.conf below, the only line I had to change here to use dual head

resolution, is in the screen section, I added:  "Virtual 3840 1200"


2) I added this line in my .xinitrc:

xrandr --fb 1920x1200 --output DVI-0 --left-of DVI-1 &


Now I have  multihead working great, no need to add more monitor, device and

screen section anymore etc .... isn't that easy? ;-)


My Xorg.conf:


Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier     "X.org Configured"

        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection


Section "Files"

        #RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/share/X11/rgb"

        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

EndSection


Section "Module"

        Load  "GLcore"

        Load  "dbe"

        Load  "extmod"

        Load  "glx"

        Load  "record"

        Load  "xtrap"

        Load  "dri"

        Load  "freetype"

        Load  "type1"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier  "Keyboard0"

        Driver      "kbd"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier  "Mouse0"

        Driver      "mouse"

        Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"

        Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"

        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"

        #DisplaySize      520   320     # mm

        Identifier   "Monitor0"

        VendorName   "BNQ"

        ModelName    "BenQ G2400W"

 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:

        HorizSync    31.0 - 94.0

        VertRefresh  50.0 - 85...
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From: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@...>
To: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:00 am

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Kamil Monticolo


Someone already mentioned xrandr . . .


Well, I just finished setting up a dual head set-up using xrandr. Below is

my xorg.conf (which was a slight variation of the generic one provided by *X

-configure*). I also consulted

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2and it's manpage for basic

commands.


I'm still practicing moving around in such an environment, but it works and,

given this is my first dual head set-up/configuration, it was quite

painless.


Good Luck!


 1 Section "ServerLayout"

  2         Identifier     "X.org Configured"

  3         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

  4         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

  5         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

  6 EndSection

  7

  8 Section "Files"

  9         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

 10         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

 11         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

 12         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"

 13         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

 14         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

 15         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

 16 EndSection

 17

 18 Section "Module"

 19         Load  "GLcore"

 20         Load  "dbe"

 21         Load  "dri"

 22         Load  "extmod"

 23         Load  "glx"

 24         Load  "record"

 25         Load  "xtrap"

 26         Load  "freetype"

 27         Load  "type1"

 28 EndSection

 29

 30 Section "InputDevice"

 31         Identifier  "Keyboard0"

 32         Driver      "kbd"

 33 EndSection

 34

 35 Section "InputDevice"

 36         Identifier  "Mouse0"

 37         Driver      "mouse"

 38         Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"

 39         Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"

 40         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

 41 EndSection

 42

 43 Section "Monitor"

 44         Identifier   "Monitor0"

 45         VendorName   "Lenove"

 46         ModelName    "T400"

 47 EndSection

 48

 49 S...
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From: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
To: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 11:27 am

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:00:21 -0500


Neil, I just rewrited your config a little bit to fit my hardware.

Now I see, that I can scroll left screen from left to right by mouse, but right monitor remains black (on earlier configs, I get an colour ASCII or blinks on it).

Here is new version of that config:


Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier     "X.org Configured"

Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection


Section "Files"

ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"

FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

EndSection


Section "Module"

Load  "GLcore"

Load  "dbe"

Load  "dri"

Load  "extmod"

Load  "glx"

Load  "freetype"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

Identifier  "Keyboard0"

Driver      "kbd"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

Identifier  "Mouse0"

Driver      "mouse"

Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"

Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"

Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"

        Identifier   "Monitor0"

        VendorName   "IVM"

        ModelName    "PLE430/431"

        HorizSync    24.0 - 83.0

        VertRefresh  55.0 - 76.0

        Option      "DPMS"

EndSection


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Kamil Monticolo
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From: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@...>
To: Kamil Monticolo <k.monticolo@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 11:44 am

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Kamil Monticolo


Just to be clear . . . your set-up is not working? I can't comment too

deeply on the matter, since this is rather new to me as well. But here's

what comes to mind.


With my config I just typed


     xrandr --output VGA --auto --left-of LVDS


and both screens work and I can move freely back and forth. Perhaps, try

shutting off the left screen


   xrandr --output "your-leftscreen" --off


and then turn it back on using the first script above.


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www.nealhogan.net          www.lambdaserver.com
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From: Lars Noodén <larsnooden@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Dual-head OpenBSD 4.5 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:13 am

If anyone goes further and sets up multi-seat, it would be interesting

to read about.


Regards

-Lars
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