From TwinView To nView
oboltyo back again, sorry it has been so long. Just wanted to update you on running dual cards or the new geforce4 with nView. First of all I did get two cards up and running, I used two nvidia cards incase your curious, and also did get the excelerated drivers working (but only on the primary monitor - infact i had to manipulate the XF86Config-4 file a bit so the agp card was listed first, if you use XFree86 -configure it will set up a new XF86Config-4 file if you are using Xserver 4.%@!#$& and up I believe that will do this for you) but all in all I could never get the system to run as stable as with dual out from a single card. As for nView - it worked as easy as twinview did for the mx cards - beautifully!! All I did is add the same Options as before and restart my X server and bam... both screens again with no stability problems. I do need to mention though- when I first put this card in (Winfast A25%@!#$&) Linux would not boot at all. After an hour of racking my head on the wall I finally figured out that it would not boot as long as lilo was using any type of frame buffer so I had to set the video section in lilo to normal and every thing was then ok. Well hope this info helps some of you out there in WebLand..Lates. -here are the Options to add to Section "Device" (yours may differ for the refresh rates and sync rates)
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "3%@!#$&-95"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "5%@!#$&-%@!#$&6%@!#$&"
Option "MetaModes" "%@!#$&%@!#$&80x1%@!#$&%@!#$&4, %@!#$&%@!#$&80x1%@!#$&%@!#$&4, %@!#$&%@!#$&%@!#$&4x768, %@!#$&%@!#$&%@!#$&4x768, 8%@!#$&0x6%@!#$&%@!#$&, 8%@!#$&0x6%@!#$&%@!#$&, 640x48%@!#$&, 640x48%@!#$&"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt,crt"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
What kind of frame rates?
I ran gears -fps at non-fullscreen and was getting anywhere from 55%@!#$&%@!#$& to 7%@!#$&%@!#$&%@!#$& fps depending on window manager and upto %@!#$&9%@!#$& fps full screen (across both monitors). My system is a dual PIII %@!#$& gig, 1gig of RAM. Remember though that the second processor rarely helps in frame rates unless the program is written for multi threading.
Whou should I send the screenshot too ??