Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:15:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: thomas r stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone try the new dual-head G-400 drivers? Message-ID: <20000818111512.A978@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000817111335.B714@rtci.com>; from tstromberg@rtci.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:13:35AM -0400 References: <20000817111335.B714@rtci.com>
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On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 11:13:35 -0400, thomas r stromberg wrote: > We're looking at buying some workstations for our network admins > here, and dual head is a plus. We were looking at buying them from > hardware.bsdi.com, and then today on Slashdot I saw: > > ----------------- > Matrox has released a beta driver for their G200/G400/G450 which > includes support for DualHead and QuadHead (up to 4 monitors), Flat > Panel and TV out. This driver is a beta. You can get it here and I > mirrored it here. You'll need XFree 4.0.1 in order to use this > driver. Please follow the readme file carefully! (the readme file > from Matrox's FTP needs to be converted dos2unix). Note: you cannot > use the 3D hardware acceleration on the 2nd monitor (yet). > ----------------- > > And of course, I was instantly happy when I saw this.. I'd be even happier if I knew where "here" was. > Has anyone tried these drivers yet in FreeBSD? No, but I'd like to. I have finally installed XFree 4.0 on my machine, and now have the board working in single-head mode, but it would be nice to get the second one working too. > They look to be the OS-independant XFree86 4.0.1 modules (nothing > funky like the NVIDIA ones). They come with some source code, but > it appears to be wrappers around a missing HAL (?) library, > though I could be wrong. I don't think you are. This was very much the intention. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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