Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:30:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dual Head with Matrox G450/G550 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109302228360.70898-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <20011001112602.E31215@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote to Ryan Thompson: > On Saturday, 29 September 2001 at 0:31:41 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > Anyone have any experience running a dual head system with the Matrox G450 > > or G550 cards in 4.x? (This question comes from someone who has never > > tried to run a dual head FreeBSD workstation :-) > > People have had them running. Check the archive for more details. > > > Can anyone comment on general X support for these cards? > > It's there, but the second head is significantly slower than the > first. I have a dual head G400, and I don't use the second head > because the maximum resolution is 1280x1024. The G550 may be > acceptable. Ahh... Wasn't thinking about that. I think the G550 has increased refresh rates and resolutions overall... Don't have the specs handy, though, so I don't know the exact numbers. They CAN use different resolutions and refresh rates on each port, though, which is nice, especially with mismatched monitors. Thanks, - Ryan > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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