Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:34:53 -0400 From: Eric Ekong <eric@unixtechs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with matrox parhelia 256Mb with dual head Message-ID: <20050701213453.GG1192@blackguy> In-Reply-To: <BDBF3C32188ED08D48583829@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <20050630031849.GA94889@blackguy> <20050630181055.GA35989@blackguy> <41FD3108251376A060401577@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20050701175600.GD1184@blackguy> <BDBF3C32188ED08D48583829@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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As far as I know there is no freebsd driver for the P-Series of the Matrox card P650, P750, and Parhelia. Everything I could find points to using the downloadable driver. The matrox driver for these cards is mtx as opposed tot he mga/mga_hal/mgadrm. Mind sharing your xorg.conf just so I can compare. I had Xinerama in and with it in, my desktops just showed duplicates. Eric * Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> [050701 17:12]: > --On Friday, July 01, 2005 13:56:00 -0400 Eric Ekong <eric@unixtechs.org> > wrote: > > >Initially the second monitor wasn't coming up at all. Now, with a > >minor change or two, I have the second monitor coming up, but it seems > >to bring up a second window manager that I have no access to..., the > >second monitor just kinda sits there in the default kde start screen. > > > >That along with the fact that if I enable Xinerama, I lock up X to the > >point where I can't drop to a virtual screen because the keyboard and > >mouse lock up as well. If I've gotten this far I must be only a step > >or two away from getting this to work fully. > > > >Need is to have one desktop stretched across 2 monitors. Roughly > >3200x1600 desktop. > > > >Do you have this working with the parhelia? > > No, I have a Radeon X300 card. > > > If so are you using Xorg > >or XFree86 in ports. I'm guess XFree86 would work in this setup > >better, but it is just a hunch. > > > I'm using Xorg and Xinerama - two 19 inch monitors - one desktop. The > problem that I have is that the right screen won't display until the system > goes to sleep. So, when I first login, I change the setttings to get the > system to go to sleep in one minute, wait one minute, then move the mouse. > The right screen then works as long as I don't log out. (Locking and > unlocking the screen works just fine.) > > But the problems you're having sound more driver related. Was there a > reason you chose the Linux driver instead of the native FBSD one? > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > University of Texas at Dallas > AVIEN Founding Member > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ======================================================= Eric I. Ekong eric@unixtechs.org FreeBSD - The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD http://freebsd.kde.org ======================================================= Laws of Serendipity: (1) In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. (2) If you wish to make an improved product, you must already be engaged in making an inferior one.home | help
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