From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jan 10 9:10: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22EC14C46 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA65770; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:10:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:10:11 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Roger Hardiman Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: G400 Multihead in X? In-Reply-To: <3879F1B0.DA90D9C9@cs.strath.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Great! thanks. Any idea if it will be/is possible to control the tv output feature on dualhead cards? Or if it might be on by default? On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Roger Hardiman wrote: >Trust me to follow up to my own posting.... > >> Roger Hardiman wrote: >> >> > Does anyone know of any X servers (free or not, prefer free) that allow >> > both VGA outputs on a Matrox G400 to operate? >> >> I can tell you that XFree86 will not work. >> It probably will never work either. > >Since I wrote this, there has been some discussion on the >XFree86 developers mailing list, started by Amancio. >It looks like we may well have a partial solution >for Dual-Head G400's very shortly in the next >XFree86 4.0 beta. > >There may be limitations, like both monitors having the >same resolution, and beling limited to 1024x768 maximum, >but that may be all you need. > >So, right now, you'll just have to wait. But progress is being made. > >Cheers >Roger > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message