Re: How stable is dual head... Matrox G400
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed:
> >>
> >> I use a dual head matrox card every day.
> >>
> > I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager
> > which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of
> > blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better
> > than xinerama since my displays aren't a matched set.
> >
>
> thanks
>
> >
> > Gotchas:
> > - Took me a long time to get it running, solution was to download and
> > install the drivers from the Matrox website. There are very good
> > dual-head XF86Config-4 examples out there.
> >
>
> I am using a single dual head card with the stock drivers in Debian.
>
Very interesting. My second display never showed other than solid
black under X without the Matrox drivers. For future archive searchers,
the name of the package I downloaded from Matrox is
mgadrivers-2.0.tgz
Which installed the files
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o
I also checked out Matrox's Linux version of MGA Power Desk 1.0 b8,
which is a gui tool for setting up your displays. It defaults to
enabling Xinerama and had some bugs (swapped my displays left-to-right)
and limitations (sets both displays to same resolution). But for beta
software it wasn't bad, and it did create a dual-head XF86Config-4 file
with examples of useful settings that ran both heads.
Someone starting with this tool could probably get things working to
their satifsaction with a modest amount of editing. Very nice to see
Matrox working on this.
PM
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Paul Mackinney
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