Re: [Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-08 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: I'm considering buying a G450 for dualhead on my machine, but I want to know if I can hook up a 19 (primary) monitor and a 15 (satellite) monitor with few problems, at different resolutions. yep. been there, done that, no

Re: [Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
the other problem with the G450 is that when running with 2 heads, the memory isn't split 50/50; it's split 75/25. the second head only gets 8MB of video ram. ~~;( Have you tried either Option Crtc2Half # [bool] or Option Crtc2Ram

Re: [Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-07 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I'm considering buying a G450 for dualhead on my machine, but I want to know if I can hook up a 19 (primary) monitor and a 15 (satellite) monitor with few problems, at different resolutions. yep. been there, done that, no worries. had a 21 at 1440x1080@81Hz, and a 14 at 640x480.

[Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-04 Thread Tom Manning
I've been reading everything I can find on this card, and there's so much conflicting and outdated info out there I'm getting confused. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on an older Pentium II, with a BX chipset. **I know some of these questions are newbie type questions, but if I fully understood

Re: [Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I have this card, with two monitors at the same resolution with FreeBSD and Linux (XFree 4.0 and 4.1) With Solaris you can use XFree or you can patch Solaris 8 and then works. I have two icewm, one in first monitor and the other one in the other monitor, without problems. I don't test