Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:45:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kabaev@mail.ru> 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: <XFMail.000817224545.kabaev@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000817111335.B714@rtci.com>
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This driver will not run on FreeBSD most likely. It seems like the driver needs Linux framebuffer device to run. On 17-Aug-00 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.. > > Has anyone tried these drivers yet in FreeBSD? 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. > > Please forward any successes/failures to the list. > > -- > thomas r. stromberg : tstromberg@rtci.com > senior systems administrator : http://www.afterthought.org/ > research triangle commerce, inc. : 1.919.657.1317 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru> Date: 17-Aug-00 Time: 22:43:41 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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