Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:39:41 +0200 From: fvdelius@t-online.de (Felix von Delius) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Martin Kruse Jensen <loproc@loproc.dk> Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox G450 Dualhead Message-ID: <200305231839.41383.fvdelius@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <1051653139.3eaef41370510@192.168.0.2> References: <1051653139.3eaef41370510@192.168.0.2>
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On Tuesday 29 April 2003 23:52, Martin Kruse Jensen wrote: > I just installed my very first FreeBSD, but I have a little problem with my > X configuration. Which driver should I use to get my Matrox G450 dualhead > pci card working? Using FreeBSD-4.8 and XFree86 4.3.0 It depends on which mode you want to use your Matrox card: configuring it single-headed with an analog monitor should be relatively easy and is exhaustively described in the FreeBSD handbook. To make use of the more advanced features of your Matrox card (dual-head or the DVI connector), you have to install the "mga_hal" module which is only available as linux binary from Matrox (www.matrox.com). The binary Linux driver for XFree 4.2.0 works fine for FreeBSD XFree 4.3.0. Just place the file mga_hal_drv.o in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/. After this, you have to configure the dualhead mode. On XFree86 this mode is called "Xinerama" and installation is exhaustively described in this HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ One hint while you fiddle around with your XF86Config: don't be too impatient when starting the server with a test configuration. Your machine may seem zo be frozen, but after a half a minute or so it still gets a picture and in the XFree86.0.log you can find warnings that show you what took so long and remove/change this. Here a dualhead G550 is working fine in a dualhead configuration with a 19" CRT besides a 17" DVI-TFT under FreeBSD 4.8. If it helps you, I can send you my XF86Config file. cheers, Felix -- public class main Hello { public static void main(String args[]) { System.out.println("Java is for people that like to type a lot."); } }
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