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 ><>
