On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Christopher Quale wrote:
>
> Does XFree 4.0 (the "xinerama", I think, feature) actually
> support dual head on a Matrox G400? I own one and tried to
> get it working but I seem to remember reading that we had
> to wait for Matrox to release their XF 4.0 drivers. Can
> anyone confirm or deny this 'cause if there were a way to
> run dual head I would be most interested as I enjoy having
> that luxury in winblows.
>
> Chris
No there is no support for the G400 in xinerama that I am aware
of. Primary development has been done on and with G200's. With the latest
inbodyment of the matroxfb drivers you could manage to have X on one and
console on another, but hitting a hotkey is required to change which get's
input. To achive what your looking for your only option (again that I am
aware of) is purchaseing A AccelX Multihead server.
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > >
> > > The other day I read a mail about some people that had a G400 dual head
> > > and how to configuring it. I have read an article that explain how to
> > > install two graphic card (and the monitor) with win98 with a few steps
> > > and very easy and the only thing that I can say is .... wooau.
> > >
> > > There's some way to do the same with linux and the Xfree?
> > >
> > XFree86 v4.0.x supports dual-headed Linux, but primarily
> > with dual-output cards, *I THINK*. I've been wrong before,
> > but I *do* know that X4 supports dual-monitors. Don't
> > *think* it supports dual-video cards, but Metro-X, a
> > commercial X-server *does* support multiple video cards.
> > John
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