Do Generic Drivers Support DualHead

From: Jeff Gaines (whitedragon101_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 10:09:24 GMT

I have just installed SuSE 9.1 and have it working fine except for
dualhead.

I have a Matrox P650 graphics card, probably not the best card for
Linux although the quality is excellent in Windows.

SuSE runs XFree 4.3.99 (from memory) - they seem to be making a point
about not using XFree 4.4?

Do any of the generic drivers support dualhead? The Matrox drivers were
built for XFree 4.3.0 and I can't compile them under 4.3.99

If the generic drivers won't work perhaps I should find a distribution
that uses XFree 4.3.0 - any recommendations? I have lots of distros on
cover disks but my inexperience means I need to install them before I
can see what version of XFree they use - and that could take some time! 

-- 
Jeff Gaines - Damerham Hampshire UK
Posted with XanaNews http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d7xananews.htm

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