Dual-Head for Matrox G450 in FC4

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Wed Jul 6 00:52:14 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:06 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:00:10PM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> 
>  > > Section "ServerLayout"
>  > >         Identifier     "Multihead layout"
>  > >         Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
>  > >         Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
>  > >         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>  > >         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>  > >         Option      "Xinerama" "on"
>  > >         Option      "Clone" "off"
>  > > EndSection
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Your config did not work for me.  Also, note that the driver that comes
>  > with FC4 did not support xinerama as well.  At least for me it did not
>  > work.
> 
> For me, in the section above, I need to place a # before the 
> Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
> line, or the first head never comes out of power saving mode.
> This gets me a cloned display oddly.  If I then remove the #
> and restart X, everything comes up just fine.
> This bug has been around for many moons, both in Red Hat bugzilla,
> and x.org bugzilla.

So, you have xinerama and 3-D acceleration working with FC4 drivers?
Also, I hope that bug gets fixed; don't like to be in tainted mode.


Thanks,
Ernest




>  
> 		Dave
> 




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