Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:54:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gerti-freebsdq@bitart.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox G400 & Xinerama works, but... Message-ID: <20000913105410.C47700@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000912203542.10013.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:35:41PM -0500 References: <20000912203542.10013.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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On Tuesday, 12 September 2000 at 15:35:41 -0500, Gerd Knops wrote: > Hello, > > This may be slightly off topic, but the X mailing lists don't seem to > be very responsive: > > I am using FreeBSD 4.1S, X4.01, and Matrox's beta G400 drivers with a > dual head setup using xinerama. > > I have 2 problems: > > 1) When using xinerama, there are redraw problems of widgets on the > first screen only. There are vertical lines in the widget. Moving the > mouse over a widget often creates or removes the problem in that > widget. It happens independent on which window manager is used. Anyone > else seen this? Or could it be a problem with the video ram on the > card? It's probably a bug in the driver. You'll have to feed it back to the X people. > 2) I can't seem to get the second screen to run at a higher refresh > rate. The first runs at 75Hz, the second at 60Hz (equivalent monitors > and monitor configuration). The problem appears to be this: > > > (==) MGA(0): Min pixel clock is 12 MHz > (==) MGA(0): Max pixel clock is 300 MHz > ... > (==) MGA(1): Min pixel clock is 12 MHz > (==) MGA(1): Max pixel clock is 112 MHz > > Is there any way to configure MGA(1) with a higher max pixel clock? Or > is this a problem with the driver or card? That's a hardware maximum, unfortunately. I have one of these cards as well, and it makes it effectively useless to me (well, no more use than a single-headed card). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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