On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Austin Jones wrote: > Help! > > I'm running Debian potato on a PIII-800EB w/ Tyan Tiger Motherboard. > > I have the dual head Matrox G400 card connected to a ViewSonic (monitor 1) > and Komodo (monitor 2) and I cannot get a signal to the > second monitor. During the boot sequence I would expect to get some > indication that the monitor was operational, but the screen remained blank. > > The monitor does indicate that the video is connected, the monitor is OK, > and there is NO SIGNAL. > > (BTW, I tested the monitor beforehand and it works fine). > > I started X-Windows and still I got a blank screen on my second monitor. > > Has anyone encountered this?
It's not supposed to get a signal by default. You have to edit your XF86Config file for dualhead to function. Matrox documents this in <SHOCK> the same place they keep their linux drivers, see ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2001/beta_1_2_0/readme.txt
