Rudolf Cornelissen doesn't stop, as I'm sure you all know by now. He's updated his site with the progress he's been making, and a request. Click below to read on. Rudolf's been making better than expected progress. Here's what he had to say:
The current driver in CVS should be of the same quality and stability as the released V0.09, plus it indeed adds partial flatpanel support:

  • DVI connected panels should work on all cards (which is a side effect of trying to get laptop panels going ;-)
  • GeForceFX laptop panels should work;
  • Widescreen panels should correctly display all modes! (just like normal panels of course);
  • If you know your modeline for a widescreen panel, dump it in the app_server_settings file if you know howto: you should have a unscaled 1:1 fullscreen widescreen Desktop (watch DVDs with VLC!!).
  • GeForce2Go (NV11) and GeForce4Go (at least NV17) _might_ work, but probably not. Still, I _need_ feedback!


If you have a laptop with nVidia graphics card AND/OR a normal card with a DVI panel connected to it and you feel you'd like to test, please checkout this Forum thread. I posted a link there to the most recent test version. Please test it with full logging enabled and provide feedback, so: your observations AND the logfile!

I'll be working for some more time on this stuff before I do another release. This release will include support for a panel's native resolution via the OpenBeOS _and_ Dualhead Setup Screen preferences apps. If I am unable to get older cards working correctly, well, I'll just leave it as it is then. In this case I wouldn't mind testing myself on some of those cards/laptops on BeGeistert for example... ;-)
So there you have it folks. If you fall into the category to fulfill Rudolf's request, why not help him out? It would be a nice way to say "thank you" for the awesome work he's been doing.