Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:52:18 -0400 From: Tim Grzechowski <tim.grzechowski@aais.bdi.gte.com> To: thomas r stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone try the new dual-head G-400 drivers? Message-ID: <39A69632.BD821EA@aais.bdi.gte.com> References: <20000817111335.B714@rtci.com>
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Hello! I am a SysAdmin at GTE, 'er Verizon, and we are doing something simular. We tried using the freebie stuff with Xfree86 4.0.1 but found it to be extreamly buggy... both on Linux and FreeBSD. The solution we found works best is paying the 129 bucks and getting the drivers from AcceleratedX (I think it supports up to eight monitors). We are using the Matrox DUAL Head AGP card. It's been about three weeks and I have had no problems at all... in fact, I will defend to the death anyone that comes in and tries to take eight one of my two 21" monitors! I'm telling you, once you use it for a few hours you will never want to go back. ...no the task of talking the wife into a second 21" monitor for the house :) AcceleratedX has demo drivers, but be warned that they only work ten minutes before it dumps you back at the command prompt-- it doesn't care what you are doing. Hope this helps a bit. /tg thomas r stromberg wrote: > > We're looking at buying some workstations for our network admins > here, and dual head is a plus. We were looking at buying them from > hardware.bsdi.com, and then today on Slashdot I saw: > > ----------------- > Matrox has released a beta driver for their G200/G400/G450 which > includes support for DualHead and QuadHead (up to 4 monitors), Flat > Panel and TV out. This driver is a beta. You can get it here and I > mirrored it here. You'll need XFree 4.0.1 in order to use this > driver. Please follow the readme file carefully! (the readme file > from Matrox's FTP needs to be converted dos2unix). Note: you cannot > use the 3D hardware acceleration on the 2nd monitor (yet). > ----------------- > > And of course, I was instantly happy when I saw this.. > > Has anyone tried these drivers yet in FreeBSD? They look to be the > OS-independant XFree86 4.0.1 modules (nothing funky like the NVIDIA > ones). They come with some source code, but it appears to be > wrappers around a missing HAL (?) library, though I could be wrong. > > Please forward any successes/failures to the list. > > -- > thomas r. stromberg : tstromberg@rtci.com > senior systems administrator : http://www.afterthought.org/ > research triangle commerce, inc. : 1.919.657.1317 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Grzechowski tim.grzechowski@aais.bdi.gte.com --------------------------------------------------------------- GTE Data Services AAIS Engineering, Sys. Admin. --------------------------------------------------------------- Office: 813/978-4327 Office FAX: 813/978-6812 --------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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