Dual Head Matrox g550 on rhel3
Justin Thiessen
jthiessen at penguincomputing.com
Wed Dec 15 19:52:13 UTC 2004
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:20:50PM -0500, Tad Truex wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to configure X to use my dual heads (hanging off a Matrox
> G550). I'd prefer a xinerama display, but would settle for dual
> independent displays in a pinch if that's the best we can do...
>
> I haven't had any luck with the standard configuration tools (no
> indication anywhere that they even recognize the dual headedness of the
> system). I am running a nice clean RHEL3 install with all of the
> updates installed. It is running on an Athlon64 if that matters.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? Are dual heads supported
> for the G550 under RHEL3?
Have you downloaded and installed matrox's drivers from their website?
IIRC, you need their binary "HAL" module to enable all the dual-head
support features.
Justin Thiessen
--------
> Thanks,
> Tad
>
>
>
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