On Sunday 24 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: First of all Thanks, with your help, the issue is resolved.
There may still be a small issue someone may want to look at with the G400 card detection. When I installed 8.2 I had the G400 card installed and experienced the problems below. I tried the G450 in that machine after install and had the same problems. Next I installed the matrox.com driver which got dual heads going. At that point if I had known I think I could have made the adjustments in the KDE control center you suggested and been fine. With the G450 installed MCC did recognize both heads after installing the matrox drivers and the setings you mentioned in the KDE control center got the windowing behavior right. However, with the G400 installed MCC and XFdrake do not recognize it as a dual head card although the card is identified properly by name but no mention of dual head. For the machine with the G400 I got the settings right with the G450 intalled and then stut down, switched cards and now both machines are working well. If anyone is interested I can duplicate this situation and provide info requested. Thanks again. Jim ><> > 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/fea >tures2.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 > > > > ><> -- Jim ><>
