On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, SHOBHIT MATHUR wrote: > * The 2 Video cards are : > ATI Card Mach 64 [ built-into the motherboard ] > Matrox MGA 2064W [ Add-on card - PCI slot ] > * XFree86 -pci recognizes both the cards and allots BusIds. > (0:13:0) Matrox MGA 2064W ----- FIRST > VIdeo Card > (1:0:0) ATI card using a ATI Mach64 GDP ----- SECOND > [built-in].
That Matrox card has a jumper (a slider IIRC) which is used to disable VGA and make it into a secondary card; I don't think my motherboard cared, but it might matter for a motherboard with onboard video. > XFree86 -version : XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System Try 4.10, CVS or wait for 4.2.0. I think things have changed a little since 4.0.3. > ---------------- > * Frame-buffer device-driver needs to be a part of the compiled kernel > in order to observe multihead behaviour. I think you should be able to get dual head on these cards without fbdev (although it may work perfectly well with fbdev). > #XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator Try using the config file generated by X -configure -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie