From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 19:35:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FB816A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law15-dav13.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.22.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8957443FF5 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iamcarmoda@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:35:38 -0700 Received: from 211.28.220.147 by law15-dav13.law15.hotmail.com with DAV; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:35:37 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [211.28.220.147] X-Originating-Email: [iamcarmoda@hotmail.com] From: To: References: <200308271731.30508.froese@mtu.edu><20030905075816.GA4322@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <200309051050.20785.froese@mtu.edu> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:47:26 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Sep 2003 02:35:38.0428 (UTC) FILETIME=[8EC047C0:01C3741F] Subject: Re: How to configure dual head & G550 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:35:40 -0000 Ok, i was holding off from making the jump to 5.1 on my workstation [win2k] mainly because of my Matrox 550 card. I think it's time to get a third HD and give it a go next week. It'll be the last windows machine in my office. On another note: I have a Matrox G220 + Rainbow Runner card [type 1 AGP] with no home if anyone want to make an offer. > I was successful configuring dual-head after much, much googling and some > excellent advice from a very small number of list members. The lack of > documentation both on the XFree86 web site and the FreeBSD site was quite > discouraging. While I find the handbook, for example, quite useful for > general concepts, there are few detailed technical references both published > and informal for FreeBSD. > > What I did conclude: > [snip] > On Friday 05 September 2003 03:58 am, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > On Wed, 27-Aug-2003 at 17:31:30 -0400, Robert Froese wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm interested in converting my single head Matrox G400 system to a dual > > > head G550 system. I've aquired the hardware assuming it will work, but > > > after a half-hour now looking for instructions I haven't found any. Can > > > anyone point me to some resources that suggest where to begin? I'd > > > greatly appreciate it.