We're looking at buying some workstations for our network admins
here, and dual head is a plus. We were looking at buying them from
hardware.bsdi.com, and then today on Slashdot I saw:
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Matrox has released a beta driver for their G200/G400/G450 which
includes support for DualHead and QuadHead (up to 4 monitors), Flat
Panel and TV out. This driver is a beta. You can get it here and I
mirrored it here. You'll need XFree 4.0.1 in order to use this
driver. Please follow the readme file carefully! (the readme file
from Matrox's FTP needs to be converted dos2unix). Note: you cannot
use the 3D hardware acceleration on the 2nd monitor (yet).
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And of course, I was instantly happy when I saw this..
Has anyone tried these drivers yet in FreeBSD? They look to be the
OS-independant XFree86 4.0.1 modules (nothing funky like the NVIDIA
ones). They come with some source code, but it appears to be
wrappers around a missing HAL (?) library, though I could be wrong.
Please forward any successes/failures to the list.
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