dual monitor setup

[John (EBo) David]

Blake Barnett wrote:
> 
> If it's a Matrox card they have the PowerDesk utility.
> 
> From: der.hans
> 
> > I have a dual head martox and when I set the thing up I recall running
> > aGUI configurator which would have allowed me to set up the multi head
> > option, etc.  Since then I have forgotten the name of the program and
> > have been unable to find it.  Anyone have a clue what it might be
> > called?
> 
> X
> 
> :)
> 
> Try the --configure option.

X is generally working (and has for over a year on this box) I just did
not have a second monitor to run on it at the time.

> Also try xf86cfg.

That blows up with an illegal instruction....  hmm...  do not know why.

Also, the matrox site does not have precompiled drivers for xfree86
4.0.2 despite the docs specifically stating they do (yes I should
upgrade, but will hold out until I do the entire machine in a couple of
months).  I had some problem compiling the new drivers from source and
decided that I would bag it for the moment since I have t omuch work to
do though.  As a note, I went through all this some time back and
upgraded the matrox drivers and was able to get the second monitor
working with mgapdesk.  I am having  some really wierd artifacts on the
second monitor which I would guess is butter overruns. which would
likely be fixed with the driver upgrade.  Either that or I have a bad
card which would be a REALLY BIG BUMMER...

Thanks for all the help, and I'll report back later.

  EBo --