From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 09:39:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AE837B401 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 09:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B1443F85 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 09:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fvdelius@t-online.de) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19JFZg-0005Tp-02; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:39:20 +0200 Received: from helix.felix.lan (520080346208-0001@[217.81.210.141]) by fwd01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19JFZT-0LE44OC; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:39:07 +0200 Received: from shuttle.felix.lan ([192.168.1.12] helo=shuttle) by helix.felix.lan with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JFZS-0002Mi-00; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:39:06 +0200 From: fvdelius@t-online.de (Felix von Delius) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:39:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1051653139.3eaef41370510@192.168.0.2> In-Reply-To: <1051653139.3eaef41370510@192.168.0.2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305231839.41383.fvdelius@t-online.de> X-Sender: 520080346208-0001@t-dialin.net cc: Martin Kruse Jensen Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox G450 Dualhead X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:39:28 -0000 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."); } }