On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:03, Herschel wrote: > This has to some extent been discussed earlier, however, I have not run > across a communications that covers my situation. I already own a > Matrox dual head G450 (as seen by Mandrake) - I can operate both > monitors, but they are clones seeing the same view at differing > resolutions with different overall physical sizes. Not satisfactory, > but at least the configuration sees the card as a dual head with two > different monitors with differing resolutions. > > When loading Fedora Core 3 on the same machine on a new disc, it > identified the card as a Matrox G400 and while both monitors can be run > they are forced to use the same resolutions, which could damage the > smaller when run above its optimum setting. Explanation: they are both > lcd types. > > If I choose FC3 and later 4, would I be able to have this card > recognized as a dual head? Moreover, could I operate each monitor > independently, e.g. one views the code being executed while the other > sees the resulting application? > > TIA I have FC3 box with a G400 card driving dual 17-inch CRT's. They are the same size. My son has FC3 box with a G450 card driving dual 17-inch LCD's. They are the same size also. We both use the mga driver from the Matrox web site. I use KDE, he uses GNOME. The 2 screens function as one large one. We're both happy. The only problem we have encountered is xine window goes blank when it is moved to the right hand screen. I have a tv card and the same thing happens with tvtime and kdetv. If my xorg.conf file would be of interest to you let me know and I'll send it to you. -- Paul Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA
