From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 24 13:18:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161BB37B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6OKIYb07429; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107242018.f6OKIYb07429@ptavv.es.net> To: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual-head (and other) support for Matrox G450 In-reply-to: Your message of "24 Jul 2001 14:08:40 CDT." <871yn69mbr.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:18:34 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Douglas, Thanks so much for the information! I can't wait to hook up a second monitor and play with it. It is disappointing that DRI is not working on FreeBSD. I hope it gets fixed some day soon! Just having the dual-headed capability is the main thing for now. Thanks again! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > From: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) > Date: 24 Jul 2001 14:08:40 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > > We have a handfull of the G450 cards, most of them doing dual-head > service. We are using the XFree86-4 out of ports and this works pretty > good. Dual head works fine. We have only two gripes: > > o DRI doesn't work out of the box. (I haven't had it working since 4.0.1) > > o The second head won't do DPMS. > > I've tried the suggestions from > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ to get DRI working with the > G45 and XFree86 4.1, but to no avail. A patch found on the Linux > support forum at Matrox's site > (http://matrox.com/mga/support/forum/agree.cfm) has been applied to > the mga driver that you get from the CVS repository, and that does fix > the DPMS on the second head problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message