Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:55:40 -0600 From: "Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster" <freebsd@kungfoohampster.com> To: "" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Gervais <pgervais@cnwl.igs.net> Subject: Re: Matrox G450 support in FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <1048258540.3e7b27ec63d91@tools.kungfoohampster.com>
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mgapdesk is a nice utility for configuring the XF86Config for matrox cards. I
have a G550 and it worked great. Then I went in and tweaked the rest of the
XF86Config manually.
Its in the ports as x11/mgapdesk
(I'm running FreeBSD pre4.8 and XFree86 4.3.0)
-Adam
Quoting Peter Gervais <pgervais@cnwl.igs.net>:
> The Matrox G450 video card is supposed to able to handle 2 monitors on the
> single PCI card.
> The 5.0 doc indicate that it includes XFree86 4.3.0 release which supports
> this card.
> When 5.0 is loaded, and i look at the mga driver man page, i get XFree86
> 4.2.0.
>
> Question:
>
> I need to be able to use the two monitors separately as two separate units
> ( not showing the same stuff on both ).
>
> 1) Do i need to download 4.3.0 from Xfree86 in order to get this support?
> If so, Xfree86 4.3.0 is only supported on previous 4.x version of FreeBSD.
>
> 2) What is the XFree86Config file supposed to look like in order to
> implementation dual separate head using the Matrox mga driver.
>
> 3) the man page talks about a mga_hal file. Can't find this anywhere? Is
> this required?
>
> 4) do i need to start the xserver in a special way ?
>
> 5) can this done using motif mwm?
>
>
> The system does work showing identical info on both screens. I need to get
> true dual separate heads working.
>
>
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