Yipee! Nvidia triple screen / single card!

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sim

Hi all

Just thought I'd share my joy... I just tried plugging a third monitor (actually my TV) into my Zotac GT640 nvidia video card and IT JUST WORKS (tm). :e

I tried this a couple of months ago, just after buying the card, and it did not work, so clearly the driver & Twinview (now misleadingly named) have been tweaked in the interim.

Not sure if that's common knowledge or not, but at least I can say it now works for real. Time to stump up for a third monitor!

No messing around at all, I didn't even reboot - Twinview just saw the new screen and allowed me to configure it's position and res just like the previous two screens.

My thanks to nvidia for supporting FreeBSD.

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I'm not that familiar with nVidia's model numbering but in my researches I did confirm that the first generation of GPU to natively support >2 monitors on a single card is the Kepler series, which was released earlier this year. My GT640 is an entry-mid level card based the this architecture.

The purchasing/research process was made all the more difficult by nVidia's (wantonly?) confusing model number 'strategy', where they apparently re-use model numbers (or very slight variations thereof) for completely different generation of device. :\

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