Hey Phil, Cookers, Back in march I got my matrox G450 dual head working properly in 8.2/KDE thanx to your help as the email below indicates. Specifically I just needed to turn on xinerama in the KDE config. Now with 9.0B1 thru 9.0RC1 I am having similar/worse problems - the xinerama option is greyed out even if chosen during install or XFdrake. The G450 or G400 dual head (I tryed both) are not installed correctly with XFdrake but if I import my old XF86Config-4 (or the available matrox driver) it seems to work properly until I open certain apps at which point that app freezes requiring an xkill. Konsole and kpackage are some of the apps that lock when using my old XF86Config-4 and it does not seem useable this way. It is interesting that the first 1 or 2 instances of Konsole lock up but after that I can open it many times with no problem until the next time I restart KDE. These apps work fine in single screen mode either "mirror" or one display mode.
I would like to know how to configure a G450 or G400 for dual head multi display (xinerama) under 9.0RC1. A working XF86Config-4 file for 9.0/this card might help me understand what is wrong. I thank you for any help you can give or if this issue is corrected in the next RC. I can reproduce this problem and provide more info if needed. Jim ><> On Sunday 24 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > > Can anyone tell me where to look to get my systems working with both > > heads "inteligently" using 8.2? The matrox driver is not as good as the > > standard setup of 8.1 and the 8.2 built in support for these cards is > > partially broken and worse than pre 8.0 support. > > The machine that I'm currently using has a G400 and Mandrake 8.2. I > haven't noticed any difference since upgrading from 8.1. Are you sure > Xinerama is turned on in the KDE Control Center? (Window Behaviour > > Advanced > Xinerama. I have all four Xinerama checkboxes selected). > > If that doesn't help, I can send you my XF86Config-4. > > BTW -- The card was properly detected and configured during the > installation: > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake8.2/QuickLook/pages/fea >tures2.php3 And it also appears correctly in the Mandrake Control Center > (Hardware > Display). > > > Bye, > Phil > > On Sunday 24 March 2002 04:23 pm, pbrown wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hope someone can help with this: > > > > I have two machines running dual head matrox cards[G400 & G450]. In 8.1 > > the dual head features installed and worked very well using Xinerama > > [XFree86 4.2.0-1mdk]. XFdrake also recognized that they were dual head > > cards presenting appropraite options and showed resolution choices from > > 1280x1024 to 640x480 which is reasonable for those cards. Using KDE > > opening of most applications rendered inteligently by showing logo > > centered on head one and opening on head one. The window maximize button > > would maximize the window to full screen on the single head it started > > on. Just a few applications seemed to be "unaware" of how to handle dual > > head setup and rendered logo centered between each screen with half the > > logo on each screen where the desktop seam is Staroffice 6.0beta is an > > example of an "unaware" application. Konqueror is an example of an > > "inteligent" appication. In the case of the "unaware" application the > > maximize button caused the app to maximize across both heads. > > > > Starting with 8.2 beta1 the dual head function for these cards has > > problems and I could not get the second head to work on either machine. > > > > The 8.2 beta1 thru 8.2 released version [XFree86 4.2.0-10mdk] install > > script does not recognize these are dual head cards and only presents > > options to configure the first head. In addition to this the resolution > > choices without choosing "expert" are only 800x600 and 640x480. I tried > > using the version of drakxtools from 8.1 and that did not help. I also > > tried using the XFconfig-4 from the 8.1 system that works but that did > > not help. > > > > The driver and powerdesk app from matrox.com enables dual head to work in > > 8.2 but all applications act as if "unaware" of the dual head config. > > > > Can anyone tell me where to look to get my systems working with both > > heads "inteligently" using 8.2? The matrox driver is not as good as the > > standard setup of 8.1 and the 8.2 built in support for these cards is > > partially broken and worse than pre 8.0 support. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > jim > > > > ><> -- Jim ><>
