From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 02:25:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3134E1065676 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:25:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@suso.org) Received: from arvo.suso.org (mail.suso.org [216.9.132.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0E78FC19 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@suso.org) Received: from webmail.suso.org (unknown [216.9.132.158]) by arvo.suso.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A315D88085 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:02:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 98.220.3.224 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikes) by webmail.suso.org with HTTP; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:05:17 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4018.98.220.3.224.1228183517.squirrel@webmail.suso.org> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:05:17 -0000 (UTC) From: mikes@suso.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-XheaderVersion: 1.1 X-UserAgent: Subject: AGP video card for dual-head operation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:25:14 -0000 I used a Matrox G450 dual-head card with earlier versions of FreeBSD/Xfree but have finally had to upgrade the hardware. Getting the G450 to display both monitors using zinerama took a bit of time, but once set it worked well. I purchased an ATI Radeon 9600 All-in-wonder primarily for doing some video capture under MS Windows XP, but the system dual-boots FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE, kernel and ports current as of 11/28/2008. X server is 7.3 patch 2; the ati driver is 6.9.0 (I can't access the system right now, so that may be wrong). I've been unable to get the ATI card to display anything on the secondary monitor (display is turned off when X11 starts up); "xrandr" shows "VGA-1" as connected and "VGA-0" as disconnected, and nothing I've been able to do with xorg.conf has changed that ("xrandr --auto" does nothing other than blank the primary screen). I have seen some references to a bug in the ati/radeon driver which is "fixed in the next version". I can't use the G450 either; there appears to be a bug in the mga driver (which is not installed by default but the vesa driver crashes with the G450) which stops xrandr form working (or at least that's what I found in a Google search). There's a lot of confusing information out there since, as I understand it, xorg 6.x and xorg 7.x do xinerama differently. Is there anyone who has gotten an ATI 9600 AIW to work in dual-head mode, and if so, how did you do it? Is there a better AGP card which supports a similar video capture function under MS Windows XP? Mike Squires UN*X at home since 1985, but almost all on VT100 displays