From: Luke A. Kanies Date: 03:56 on 11 May 2005 Subject: NVidia hate I know this won't win any awards for stupid error codes, but still... After trying Xinerama for a while to see if it reduced the temperature of my video card (it didn't), I finally had to log out again, so I was going to switch back to TwinView, since it's slightly faster (being in hardware, rather than software, or something). And even though the exact same config worked a couple of months ago (other than some judicious commenting to disable xinerama and enable twinview), this is the error message I got: (WW) NVIDIA(0): TwinView cannot be enabled when a GPU is shared between (WW) NVIDIA(0): multiple X screens. Now, for those who don't know what TwinView is, it's, well, it's something that NVidia provides to, well, allow a GPU to be shared between multiple X screens. Yes, that's right, this function doesn't work when you try to use it; otherwise, it works fine. Yes, I'm assuming I broke the config somehow, but, geez, how does this kind of error even get added to the driver? It's just astounding. Back to Xinerama and it's slow crappiness, I guess...
From: Robert G. Werner Date: 06:47 on 11 May 2005 Subject: Re: NVidia hate Luke A. Kanies wrote: [snip] > Back to Xinerama and it's slow crappiness, I guess... > Craptacular!!!!! I stopped using the NVidia drivers because I couldn't keep my computer up for more than 4 hours. Probably either a bad card or or some wierd interaction with the stuff I was using. But it worked fine with the NV drivers from XFree86. However, I decided I wanted dual screens more than I wanted fast 3d so I got an ATI MGA 550. I still have only one screen. But then that's bank account hate.
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