On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:37:28 -0400
"DelaCruz, Carlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

DC> Hi,
DC> 
DC> Can someone help me configure my Matrox G400 dual-head for Mandrake 8.0?

To get dualhead working you need to config your G400 card as 2 different devices. Here 
is the section from my X config:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "G400_1"
   Driver      "mga"
   Option      "AGPMode" "1"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "G400_2"
   Driver      "mga"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
   Screen      1
EndSection

Note that if you don't have a wonderful dualhead card you can run 2 different cards in 
the same way. This means you have to dig up a PCI graphics card (I've never seen a 
motherboard with two AGP slots) but they aren't too hard to find. This also means that 
you can run 3, 4, 5, ... screens if you like (and if you have desk space for all these 
monitors)

You need to setup 2 Screen sections like you would normally and then a ServerLayout 
section:

Section "ServerLayout"
   Screen         "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 2"
   Screen         "Screen 2" 0 0
   InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   Option         "Xinerama"
EndSection

Xinerama breaks anti-aliasing so ymmv 
taken from : http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=256&mode=&order=0
(I used it to get mplayer running)

AP

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