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Subject: Re: Can't make Matrox G550 dual-head work

From: Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:02:20 +0200

In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

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Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Am Mo, den 14.06.2004 schrieb Neil Bird um 12:10:
>    We have a dual-head Matrox 550 on a fresh install of FC1.  It's set 
> the monitors up in some fashion (there's an entry for each in 
> XF86Config), and there's an 'Option "Xinerama" "on"' in there [and 
> 'Option "Clone" "off"], but the only thing I can make it do is have one 
> single screen cloned on both monitors.

There is a bug in the FC1 configuration tool (and you must not use the
Matrox configuration tool, too!).



> Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Videocard0"
>          Driver      "mga"
>          VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>          BoardName   "Matrox Millennium G550"
#Add
	   BusID	"PCI:1:0:0"
	   Screen	0
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Videocard1"
>          Driver      "mga"
>          VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
>          BoardName   "Matrox Millennium G550"
>          BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
#Add
	   Screen	1
> EndSection


Works fine here.

Good Luck



Peter