VGA and HDMI out are now working nicely. I couldn’t get xrandr to work (I suspect I could with more fiddling though). Instead I’m using Nvidia’s TwinView which supports multiple monitor configurations nicely. I’ve tested it on an external TFT monitor and a widescreen TV (via HDMI) and both worked fine.
Turns out that some parts of the xorg.conf I posted earlier were redundant. You can use HAL to detect the screens, monitors, etc. All you actually need is a section to force the use of the Nvidia driver like this:
Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce G 105M" Option "TwinView" "1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "glx" Disable "dri" Disable "dri2" EndSection
The TwinView option is required to enable Nvidia’s multi-monitor stuff.
The webcam and bluetooth also seem to be working.
I’ve managed to reproduce the bug where xcowsay gets sliced across screens!
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Which driver are you using? Proprietary nvidia?
Have attempted to get the G105M running with 185.18.14 and the beta driver 190.18, with no success.
Continue to experience the error:
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.27.25-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/nvidia.ko): No such device
Operating System: OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit
Thanks for your input
August 4, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
I’m using the proprietary nvidia driver 185.18.31 (I have also used .14 successfully). However, I’m using Arch Linux so I just installed this from the package manager.
The kernel version might make a difference: I’m using 2.6.30 whereas you seem to be using 2.6.27.
Sorry I can’t be more help!
August 4, 2009 @ 4:24 pm