Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:57:31 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> To: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox G400DH + amd64 Message-ID: <20050222145731.140f9a0c.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <200502221427.46568.groot@kde.org> References: <20050222141549.054a1416.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <200502221427.46568.groot@kde.org>
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Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Tuesday 22 February 2005 14:15, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > I've thought about kicking out my celeron 600 and get a new amd64 system > > (Asus A8V) - AGP because I want to reuse my old G400DH. I know that the > > binary drivers matrox supplies are only fuer i386... but did someone took > > the source and tried to compile it with xorg/xfree and amd64? Did it work? > > If not.. any suggestion for a new graphic card which gives me the > > opportunity to connect two CRT monitors to it (no DVI) and is supported > > by xorg (xinerama)? > > My G450 + two monitors works / worked fine (found out I didn't like xinerama > at all), nothing special to be done about it, using whatever xorg provides. > glgears puts in a lousy 182 fps, but this is a workstation, not a gaming rig, > so who cares? Hmmm I've removed my mga_hal binary and only got one monitor to work: (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0) (==) MGA(1): Matrox HAL module not loaded - using builtin mode setup instead (EE) MGA(1): This card requires the "mga_hal" module for dual- head operation It can be found at the Matrox web site <http://www.matrox.com>; (II) UnloadModule: "mga" (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw" so what did you do? ;) -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
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