[ale] SuSE, Nvidia, and Quake 3

[Dow Hurst]

Oops!  There aren't two Monitor sections!  The SecondMonitor option is enabled 
by the Twinview option under the Device section.  Sorry!

That gets you a unified desktop across both monitors that is hardware 
accelerated.  I like this since I can have games or modelling programs running 
in windows while other stuff is displayed at the same time.  I think once 
someone gets used to a readable desktop of 3200x2400 that it is hard to go 
back to just one monitor!
Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:
> Your best source of info is the XF86 log files in /var/log/.  You should 
> see in the file the GLX messages.  The GeForce 4 MX440 is not a 
> superfast card like the GeForce 4 Ti4200 and up.  It is a lower cost 
> card but will do OpenGL acceleration.  Quake 3 ought to run fine 
> though.  Here is my config file for X  inline below.  Watch the line 
> wrap of a few lines.  I have a dual monitor display which is why there 
> are two Monitor sections and the TwinView statements.  This was created 
> under RH9:
> 
> 
> BEGIN
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Server Layout"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>         InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
> # The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
> #       Load  "dri"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "keyboard"
>         Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
> # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
> # also use USB mice at the same time.
>         Identifier  "DevInputMice"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Dell M992"
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
>         # no known options
>         #BusID
>         Identifier  "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
>         BoardName   "NVIDIA Quadro FX (generic)"
>         Option "TwinView"
>         # be sure to replace the HorizSync and VertRefresh with correct 
> values
>         # for your monitor!
>         Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync"   "30.0-96.0"
>         Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50.0-160.0"
>         Option "TwinViewOrientation"      "RightOf"
>         Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200; 1280x1024,1280x1024; 
> 1024x768,1024x768"
>         Option "ConnectedMonitor"         "crt,crt"
>         Option "RenderAccel" "1"
>         Option "DigitalVibrance" "100"
>         Option "NoLogo" "0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" 
> "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
> END
> 
> 

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