Double Head Video and FreBSD

dan.c dan at afx.org.uk
Fri Dec 1 15:14:34 GMT 2000


Hi David

Hmm has the same setup as you (2 3dfx cards)
the problem is that there is a bug somewhere in Xfree or 3dfx that means you 
wont be able to run Dualhead with those two cards

my fix was to get a cheap tnt riva , and all worked okay

Let me know if you need any more help though!


>===== Original Message From David Dooley <dpd at raffles-it.com> =====
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to configure a desktop PC that has two 3dfx video cards in it. 
One
>is a Voodoo 3000 PCI and the other is a Voodoo 3500 AGP TV card.
>
>Questions:
>1. Is it possible to get X to work with 2 video cards.
>2. Are these 3dfx video cards supported in anything but a generic VGA mode.
>SuperProbe only reports an unknown Generic VGA card.
>
>I am trying to do this on FreeBSD 4.2 - Stable as of 1 week ago. The system 
is
>a Intel P3 600MHz with 224 Meg ram and lots of other goodies that I'll try 
and
>get to work later.
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>David.
>
>
>
>
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