Dody Web

In earlier post I talked about 8600 gt. Now I really want to have dual monitor work. With 8600 gt I have an unsolved problem. The nvenabler could not perform dvi output. I know it must be something wrong with NVCAP value. I gave up with this card. Unplug it and I use the older but it has a lot of more powerful vga card, EVGA 7950 GT 512MB DDR3 ..

Instead of VGA/DVI connector, this card has dual DVI output. The NVEnabler could not recognize it. It give a black background, but somehow the mouse cursor appear. But it is helpless.

I go with safe mode, use -x when booting. Then install NVInjector 0.2.0. I didn’t use the kext file, but I got a universal installer. I will upload this file later in other post since it’s quite big. Then reboot.

My configuration is main monitor in DVI and second monitor in VGA (using DVI-VGA converter). Go to system preferences as usual, then monitor. Click ‘Detect displays’ to enable the second monitor. It work!

The main monitor, syncmaster 931bw with DVI connector has problem. It doesn’t run in native resolution. While the second monitor detected and work with its native resolution. I use switchresx to create custom resolution. Then reboot to active it.

Perfect! It work!

There is another issue, but not a big deal for me. Quartz Extreme is not supported. All monitor work on their native resolution is enough for my eyes. I also see higher temperature, cpu core run at 51-52 celcius. With 8600 gt it is cooler, 47-48 celcius.