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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:10:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: G400 Multihead in X?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001101208030.62065-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <3879F1B0.DA90D9C9@cs.strath.ac.uk>

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Great! thanks.  Any idea if it will be/is possible to control the tv
output feature on dualhead cards?   Or if it might be on by default?

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Roger Hardiman wrote:

>Trust me to follow up to my own posting....
>
>> Roger Hardiman wrote:
>> 
>> > Does anyone know of any X servers (free or not, prefer free) that allow
>> > both VGA outputs on a Matrox G400 to operate?
>> 
>> I can tell you that XFree86 will not work.
>> It probably will never work either.
>
>Since I wrote this, there has been some discussion on the
>XFree86 developers mailing list, started by Amancio.
>It looks like we may well have a partial solution
>for Dual-Head G400's very shortly in the next
>XFree86 4.0 beta.
>
>There may be limitations, like both monitors having the
>same resolution, and beling limited to 1024x768 maximum,
>but that may be all you need.
>
>So, right now, you'll just have to wait. But progress is being made.
>
>Cheers
>Roger
>



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