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. > > > 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
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