Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed: > >> > >> I use a dual head matrox card every day. > >> > > I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager > > which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of > > blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better > > than xinerama since my displays aren't a matched set. > > > > thanks > > > > > Gotchas: > > - Took me a long time to get it running, solution was to download and > > install the drivers from the Matrox website. There are very good > > dual-head XF86Config-4 examples out there. > > > > I am using a single dual head card with the stock drivers in Debian. > Very interesting. My second display never showed other than solid black under X without the Matrox drivers. For future archive searchers, the name of the package I downloaded from Matrox is
mgadrivers-2.0.tgz Which installed the files /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o I also checked out Matrox's Linux version of MGA Power Desk 1.0 b8, which is a gui tool for setting up your displays. It defaults to enabling Xinerama and had some bugs (swapped my displays left-to-right) and limitations (sets both displays to same resolution). But for beta software it wasn't bad, and it did create a dual-head XF86Config-4 file with examples of useful settings that ran both heads. Someone starting with this tool could probably get things working to their satifsaction with a modest amount of editing. Very nice to see Matrox working on this. PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]