From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 17 20:37:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.port.ru (mx3.port.ru [194.67.23.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A904737B506 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-141-154-9-243.bellatlantic.net ([141.154.9.243] helo=kan.dnsalias.net) by smtp3.port.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #44) id 13PcyS-0002wc-00; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:37:41 +0400 Received: (from kan@localhost) by kan.dnsalias.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7I2jum08164; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:45:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kan) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000817111335.B714@rtci.com> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:45:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" To: thomas r stromberg Subject: RE: Anyone try the new dual-head G-400 drivers? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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