Re: Dualhead in 9.1 With mga400

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:33:18 +0200

Jeff Gaines wrote:

>
> I have just installed SuSE 9.1 on a dual AMD MP2000+ system.
>
> I cannot get dualhead working with my Matrox g400 max. I had it working
> on a Mandrake distro - but that didn't recognise my mouse. Having
> changed to SuSE I have a mouse but no dualhead!
>
> SuSE has a later version of XFree and Matrox drivers stop at XFree
> 4.3.0.
>
> I have been Googling away this afternoon, found articles like 'getting
> your mg400 singing and dancing' but they all relate to earlier versions
> of XFree.
>
> Any suggestions anybody? Can you point me to more up to date
> instructions?
>
> Failing that what would be involved in taking off XFree 4.3.99.902 and
> dropping back to an earlier version - or is that asking the impossible?
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>

Have you tried configuring it through YaST and Sax?

When you run Sax, what options do you get?

On my old nVidia Ti4600, it would *only* dual-head, even though I only had
one monitor - and it defaulted to the non-existent monitor for all menus
and configuration options! Plugging the analog port of a second TFT into
the card helped...

But I digress, that isn't your problem...

In Sax2 you should be able to set-up the dual head mode you want. On my
machine, when it was dual-heading, it had 2 video cards shown under the
hardware (identical cards, ending in 0 and 1 (E.g. MSI Ti4600 Dualhead (0)
and MSI Ti4600 Dualhead (1) ). If the second instance of the card isn't
there, try creating a second instance by pointing Sax at the same driver
again...

Once you have both cards set-up, go to the monitor section and make sure
both monitors are correctly installed.

Finally go to the dual-head or multi-display section and choose the mode you
want. I think you need panaroma view...

If this isn't working, please can you post more details...

Dave

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