From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 19: 3:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7A037B621 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02758; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:32:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:32:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Caleb Land Cc: Jason Portwood , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86 and the G400 Message-ID: <20000818113205.D978@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA106CB5@FOGHORN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from bokonon@rochester.rr.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:29:39PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 12:29:39 -0400, Caleb Land wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Jason Portwood wrote: > >> >> Will FreeBSD 4.1 and Xfree86 4.0.1 work with a G400 and take advantage of >> the dual head feature >> on the G400 card? I've seen a lot of posts saying yes but a few mention >> using a G200 card in the setup in addition with the G400. >> >> I can get X to start up fine with the primary display. >> >> If this is possible could someone point me in the right direction on it's >> setup? > > Well, > On slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/17/1022241.shtml) > there was mention that Matrox released a driver for dual and quad head > cards for Linux. I checked the site out, and it seems that they are > binary only :-( That's OK, since the drivers are in an OS-independent format. You can pick them up from ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2000/beta/. I've just done so, and I may be in a position to report on them by tomorrow. I'm planning a 3 monitor configuration with a G400 and a Millennium II (PCI). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message