On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 11:13:35 -0400, thomas r stromberg wrote:
> 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:
>
> -----------------
> 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).
> -----------------
>
> And of course, I was instantly happy when I saw this..
I'd be even happier if I knew where "here" was.
> Has anyone tried these drivers yet in FreeBSD?
No, but I'd like to. I have finally installed XFree 4.0 on my
machine, and now have the board working in single-head mode, but it
would be nice to get the second one working too.
> 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.
I don't think you are. This was very much the intention.
Greg
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