Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:20:47 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox G400DH + amd64 Message-ID: <1109089247.4267.4.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20050222141549.054a1416.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20050222141549.054a1416.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:15 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 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)? Unfortunately the HAL is a i386-only binary provided by Matrox which is required for G400 dualhead. The source Matrox provides is just the same open-source driver with a few minor changes. Is there a reason you can't use a DVI-to-VGA connector and use one of the various cheap, faster video cards with two heads out there? -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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