Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:32:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com> Cc: Jason Portwood <jason@iac.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86 and the G400 Message-ID: <20000818113205.D978@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008171224280.16908-100000@deepthought.granfalloon.com>; from bokonon@rochester.rr.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:29:39PM -0400 References: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA106CB5@FOGHORN> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008171224280.16908-100000@deepthought.granfalloon.com>
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On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 12:29:39 -0400, Caleb Land wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Jason Portwood wrote: > >> >> Will FreeBSD 4.1 and Xfree86 4.0.1 work with a G400 and take advantage of >> the dual head feature >> on the G400 card? I've seen a lot of posts saying yes but a few mention >> using a G200 card in the setup in addition with the G400. >> >> I can get X to start up fine with the primary display. >> >> If this is possible could someone point me in the right direction on it's >> setup? > > Well, > On slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/17/1022241.shtml) > there was mention that Matrox released a driver for dual and quad head > cards for Linux. I checked the site out, and it seems that they are > binary only :-( That's OK, since the drivers are in an OS-independent format. You can pick them up from ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2000/beta/. I've just done so, and I may be in a position to report on them by tomorrow. I'm planning a 3 monitor configuration with a G400 and a Millennium II (PCI). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. 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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