sipitai wrote:
> No one…?
you need to assume that since no is answering then no one HERE has a
Matrox G400 and has tried to set up a dual head system…that means
that you might sit here for a couple of years with NO answers to you
qestion…
so, you might have to help yourself…just a few seconds of searching
(via google: http://www.google.dk/search?q=“Matrox+G400”+linux) on the
phrase:
“Matrox G400” linux
and i learn that: "Neither of these cards [G400 and G450] support
Linux out-of-the-box. But Matrox has a great development team and
provides Linux drivers for these and other cards including the more
expensive G200-MMS series. You can get these drivers by going to the
Matrox web site at:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm."
so then i look at your xorg.conf and see that you are running the
‘mga’ driver…and, not knowing if that is the Matrox driver you have
to fetch from that URL above, i do another google on the phrase:
mga linux
and picking the top hit, go to http://linux.die.net/man/4/mga where i
learn that that ‘mga’ is the OPEN SOURCE driver (and NOT the Matrox
driver you need for dual screens)…i know this because i can read:
“The second head of dual-head cards is supported for the G450 and
G550. Support for the second head on G400 cards requires a binary-only
“mga_hal” module that is available from Matrox
<http://www.matrox.com>, and may be on the CD supplied with the card.
That module also provides various other enhancements, and may be
necessary to use the DVI (digital) output on the G550 (and other cards).”
NOW, the point of my story is this: i don’t have your problem (because
i don’t use dual head, and i don’t have a Matrox graphic card) so
there was no real reason for me to even read your first, second or
third note (because i can READ the subject line and i know that i know
NOTHING about dual heads with a Matrox G400 card) but i’m curious
about why there are three two posts by the original poster…i see
your bumps and then in MUCH less time that it took me to to type this
short note i learned BY READING that your problem is solved by
installing the required driver…
so, get busy…and, you might as well forget asking here how to
install a Matrox driver…because i’m pretty sure that THAT
information can also be discovered by reading…and, i kinda doubt
that you are gonna find someone here who has done it recently enough
to just tell you off the top of their head how to do it (anyway,
wouldn’t it be SAFER to find the real instuctions, already written
for you to follow…probably with the Matrox driver download…
consider it a game to FIND THE ANSWER of how to properly install a
Matrox driver…
and, have fun.
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