Dual monitors

[Dave Gavin]

 Thanks Greg -

 That did it - the second display is now working. I downloaded the drivers
and the mgapdesk utility from the matrox website, ran the install script for the
drivers and <poof> it now works. 

 Thanks to all for the pointers and XF86Config file samples.

Dave Gavin



On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:16:24 -0400 (EDT)
gboyce at badbelly.com wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Dave Gavin wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  Does anyone have any experience getting a dual monitor display going on
> >  RedHat
> > 9 with XFree 4.3 ? I picked up a few Matrox Millennium G400 cards with dual
> > outputs that I'd like to get running. Google provided some clues, but they
> > all seem to be missing something as the second display never comes active. 
> > I've tried defining a Screen0 and Screen1 in XF86Config along with
> > Monitor0/1 and Videocard0/1 and then setting DISPLAY=:1.0 but nothing shows
> > on the second display. Am I doing or missing something massively dumb ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >  Dave Gavin
> 
> Dave,
> 
> I'm supporting a number of G400 cards running dual head at work right now.  
> I was never able to get them working with the stock drivers that are 
> included with any version of XFree86, but it worked fine with the drivers 
> that Matrox provides.
> 
> http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_30.cfm
> 
> Give the drivers there a try, and see if they work out for you.
> 
> Greg
> 
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