On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, SHOBHIT MATHUR wrote:
> * The 2 Video cards are :
> ATI Card Mach 64 [ built-into the motherboard ]
> Matrox MGA 2064W [ Add-on card - PCI slot ]
> * XFree86 -pci recognizes both the cards and allots BusIds.
> (0:13:0) Matrox MGA 2064W ----- FIRST
> VIdeo Card
> (1:0:0) ATI card using a ATI Mach64 GDP ----- SECOND
> [built-in].
That Matrox card has a jumper (a slider IIRC) which is used to disable VGA
and make it into a secondary card; I don't think my motherboard cared,
but it might matter for a motherboard with onboard video.
> XFree86 -version : XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System
Try 4.10, CVS or wait for 4.2.0. I think things have changed a little
since 4.0.3.
> ----------------
> * Frame-buffer device-driver needs to be a part of the compiled kernel
> in order to observe multihead behaviour.
I think you should be able to get dual head on these cards without fbdev
(although it may work perfectly well with fbdev).
> #XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator
Try using the config file generated by
X -configure
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