>From the XFreee86 man page:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/mga.4.html
Name
mga - Matrox video driver
Synopsis
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "mga"
...
EndSection
Description
mga is an XFree86 driver for Matrox video cards. The driver is fully accelerated,
and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 15, 16, 24,
and an 8+24 overlay mode.
All visual types are supported for depth 8, and both TrueColor and DirectColor
visuals are supported for the other depths except 8+24 mode which supports
PseudoColor,
GrayScale and TrueColor. Multi-head configurations are supported.
Supported Hardware
The mga driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the following Matrox
chips:
MGA2064W
Millennium (original)
MGA1064SG
Mystique
MGA2164W
Millennium II
G100
G200
Millennium G200 and Mystique G200
G400 ...
Jan Mason
">jwmason@hushmail.com
At Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:10:30 -0500 (EDT), ">jwmason@hushmail.com wrote:
>
>>From the XFree86 web site 4.0 documentation:
>
>http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/RELNOTES2.html#7
>
>2.5. Multi-head
>
>Some multi-head configurations are supported in this release, primarily
>with multiple PCI/AGP cards. However, this is an area that is still
>being
>worked on, and we expect that the
>range of configurations for which it works well will increase in future
>releases. A configuration that is known to work well in most cases is
>multiple
>(supported) Matrox cards.
>
>One of the main problems is with drivers not sufficiently initialising
>cards
>that were not initialised at boot time. This has been improved somewhat
>with the INT10 support that is used
>by most drivers (which allows secondary card to be "soft-booted", but
>in
>some cases there are other issues that still need to be resolved. Some
>combinations
>can be made to work
>better by changing which card is the primary card (either by using a
>different
>PCI slot, or by changing the system BIOS's preference for the primary
>card).
>
>At Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:58:16 -0500 (EDT), ">jwmason@hushmail.com wrote:
>
>>
>>Take a look at the following web site:
>>
>>Xi Graphics
>>
>>http://www.acceleratedx.com/Pages/MXcardsMatrox.html
>>
>>"The G400 DualHead Display feature is supported. Multiple cards have
>>not
>>been tested with MX. Second display has max resolution of 1280x1024
>>at TrueColor."
>>
>>Jan Mason
>>">jwmason@hushmail.com
>>
>>At Sun, 16 Apr 2000 22:14:17 -0400, "J. Reeves Hall" ">reeves@earthling.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I have a G400 MAX video card, which has two monitor outputs. I'd like
>>>to
>>>get the second output to do something in Linux. I've heard that XFree86
>>>has issues with the way the G400 implements its dual headedness (namely,
>>>it only has one drawing engine for both of them), but I've also heard
>>>rumors that FBCon can output to both heads. I'd be happy if I could
>>>just
>>>display X on one head and a text console on the other. The two monitors
>>>are basically equivalent, and they are capable of the same resolutions.
>>>Any suggestions on how to activate the second head are welcome.
>>>
>>>I'm running XF86 4.0 and kernel 2.3.99pre5, with the fbcon driver
>>>installed.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>-Reeves
>>>
>>>--
>>>J. Reeves Hall, Georgia Tech CS Major
>>>Linux #4 SMP Sun Apr 16 15:23:55 EDT 2000
>>>10:10pm up 6:36, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
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