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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:25:26 +0000
From:      Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
To:        Egervary Gergely <mauzi@faber.poli.hu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted
Message-ID:  <3858CC26.2781@cs.strath.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912161201360.9966-100000@faber.poli.hu>

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> > I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines
> > in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16.
> >
> > I want to know which VGA cards to buy
> > for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support.
> >
> matrox :)
> 
> g200 / g400
> 
> you can buy dual-head cards, or use more than one card (pci only)

The Dual-Head G400 (the one in a single AGP card) does not
work with XFree86.

XFree86 was written to support one monitor per VGA chip
and cannot cope with 2 RAMDACs on one controller.

Roger


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