Dual monitors

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce at badbelly.com)]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Dave Gavin wrote:

> 
>  Does anyone have any experience getting a dual monitor display going on RedHat
> 9 with XFree 4.3 ? I picked up a few Matrox Millennium G400 cards with dual
> outputs that I'd like to get running. Google provided some clues, but they all
> seem to be missing something as the second display never comes active.  I've
> tried defining a Screen0 and Screen1 in XF86Config along with Monitor0/1 and
> Videocard0/1 and then setting DISPLAY=:1.0 but nothing shows on the second
> display. Am I doing or missing something massively dumb ?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Dave Gavin

Dave,

I'm supporting a number of G400 cards running dual head at work right now.  
I was never able to get them working with the stock drivers that are 
included with any version of XFree86, but it worked fine with the drivers 
that Matrox provides.

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_30.cfm

Give the drivers there a try, and see if they work out for you.

Greg