Re: Dualhead in 9.1 With mga400
From: Jeff Gaines (whitedragon101_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/24/04
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Date: 24 Aug 2004 09:18:19 GMT
On 24/08/2004 David Wright wrote:
> 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
Hi Dave
Thanks for your response.
I used yast to set it up and it showed the correct card twice and two
monitors. Interestingly it was trying for me because the monitor
indicator changed from orange to green but then back to orange.
I went to the xfree log to see if I could get any useful info to report
back and it said that device[0] appeared twice or was duplicated. I
then went back to the config file and there was no 'BusID' line so I
added it manually and guess what - it works!!!
I have since found the BusID is under an advanced section of yast/sax2
and it seems it needs setting manually.
So many thanks - a good nights sleep and your request for more details
got me on the right route.
Regards.
-- Jeff Gaines - Damerham Hampshire UK Posted with XanaNews http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d7xananews.htm
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