Dual-link DVI ? No FLOSS solutions at this time [LWN.net]

Dual-link DVI ? No FLOSS solutions at this time

Posted Dec 10, 2007 20:01 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: If you want to CONNECT LCD monitor - you don't need DVI, if you want to USE it - you do by alankila
Parent article: A pair of small Linux system reviews

I'm using some Quadro FX card (lspci shows Quadro FX 3450) and it works "out of the box" (via DPMS) with nVidia drivers (I think I had trouble with "nv" drivers). Hopefully AMD (with community help) will have a compatible 100% FLOSS solution soon, but when the system was assembled we had no such promises and nVidia is less flacky...

Quite stable on this 64-bit box but as usual with binary drivers YMMV...

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Posted Dec 10, 2007 20:15 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Dual-head is supported (I don't use it, but we've tested it and it worked) and there are commented modelines in xorg.conf:
Modeline "1920x1200" 155.0 1920 1984 2016 2144 1200 1203 1206 1212
Modeline "2560x1600" 348.16 2560 2752 3032 3504 1600 1601 1604 1656 -HSync +Vsync
Latest version of nVidia driver works just fine via just DPMS but apparently some older versions don't...