On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 01:33, pbrown wrote: > 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.
Turn off xfs, remove the entry for it in XF86Config-4, and manually list your font paths. Xinerama+xfs is evil in v4.2. -- Brad Felmey
