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I'm hoping to switch a particular desktop machine from the 32- to the 64-bit FreeBSD, and I'm running into a small problem: getting the two monitors to work in X.

See, this machine has a dual-headed GeForce 7300 GT video card, and two side-by-side displays attached. In i386, I have working xorg.conf files for both TwinView and Xinerama configurations, but both use the nvidia binary driver.

NVidia has never released a 64-bit version of the binary driver for FreeBSD. So, I've been trying to get something working with the open-source nv driver. (In some ways I'd rather be using that anyway.) But, it looks like it's spreading a single 1600×1200 window across the two displays, rather than each display haiving its own, and the "RightOf" (or LeftOf, or Above, etc.) directives in xorg.conf don't appear to work at all, so the monitor that's physically on the right is being treated as the left screen, and vice versa (which I know I could easily fix by moving the monitors, but I'd kind of like for it to work just like it already does in i386).

Here's the xorg.conf I have so far:

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option          "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier      "Configured for Xinerama"
  Screen           0  "Screen0" 0 0
  Screen           1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
  InputDevice     "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice     "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  Option          "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
  # RgbPath      "/usr/local/lib/X11/rgb"
  ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/encodings"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont-ttf"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/util"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load  "dbe"
  Load  "dri"
  Load  "extmod"
  Load  "glx"
  Load  "record"
  Load  "xtrap"
  Load  "freetype"
  Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Keyboard0"
  Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Mouse0"
  Driver      "mouse"
  Option      "Protocol" "auto"
  Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
  Option      "Buttons" "5"
  Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  ### Available Driver options are:-
  ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
  ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
  ### [arg]: arg optional
  #Option     "SWcursor"             # [<bool>]
  #Option     "HWcursor"             # [</bool><bool>]
  #Option     "NoAccel"              # [</bool><bool>]
  #Option     "ShadowFB"             # [</bool><bool>]
  #Option     "UseFBDev"             # [</bool><bool>]
  #Option     "Rotate"               # [<str>]
  #Option     "VideoKey"             # <i>
  #Option     "FlatPanel"            # [<bool>]
  #Option     "FPDither"             # [</bool><bool>]
  #Option     "CrtcNumber"           # <i>
  #Option     "FPScale"              # [<bool>]
  #Option     "FPTweak"              # <i>
  #Option     "DualHead"             # [<bool>]
  Identifier  "Card0"
  Driver      "nv"
  VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
  BoardName   "G70 [GeForce 7300 GT]"
  BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
  Option      "DualHead" "True"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor0"
  VendorName   "Dell"
  ModelName    "Dell 2007FP"
  HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
  VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor1"
  VendorName   "Dell"
  ModelName    "Dell 2007FP"
  HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
  VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier        "Screen0"
  Device            "Card0"
  Monitor           "Monitor0"
  DefaultColorDepth 24

  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier        "Screen1"
  Device            "Card0"
  Monitor           "Monitor1"
  DefaultColorDepth 24

  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

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