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/features2.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 > > ><>
