From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 30 21:30:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DE337B40D; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA73407; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:30:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:30:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dual Head with Matrox G450/G550 In-Reply-To: <20011001112602.E31215@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 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