From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 6:47:46 2003 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 4BF7737B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.kungfoohampster.com (71.46.171.66.subscriber.vzavenue.net [66.171.46.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 884A743FAF for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:47:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@kungfoohampster.com) Received: (qmail 30214 invoked by uid 80); 21 Mar 2003 14:55:40 -0000 Received: from 65.64.207.185 ( [65.64.207.185]) as user freebsd@localhost by tools.kungfoohampster.com with HTTP; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:55:40 -0600 Message-ID: <1048258540.3e7b27ec63d91@tools.kungfoohampster.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:55:40 -0600 From: "Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster" To: "" Cc: Peter Gervais Subject: Re: Matrox G450 support in FreeBSD 5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 / FreeBSD-4.8 X-Originating-IP: 65.64.207.185 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 : > 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. > > > Peter J. Gervais > P.O. Box 83 > St Andrews West,Ontario Canada > K0C 2A0 > Voice: (613)-938-6549 > Fax: (613)-936-0111 > Cell: (613)-936-7887 > E-mail: pgervais@cnwl.igs.net > _ > / | > / |__/Peter \__| > {_ __Gervais__/| Mooney C-GYTE 1977 M20J > 0 0 > __!__ > -----o----- > " " > > May the Winds Always Favor your Tail > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message