For the record, I'm following up to a thread from May 2003. To recap: I'm on RH9, with two Dell flat panels which I wanted to drive in dual-head mode. I bought an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI card, which I actually got running under Xinerama, but I had such horrible display glitches, it made one of the screens barely usable. At the time, someone recommended a Matrox G450 PCI card, but it's taken me this long to get off my butt, buy the card and give it a try. I have to say, I wish I'd done this a long time ago, because I finally have the system I've always wanted. So if you're looking for a fairly low-price flat panel dual-headed option, I would highly recommend the Matrox G450 over the ATI Radeon 7500. I'm using a pre-AGP Dell box so I have the PCI version of both cards. The Matrox's display quality on both the VGA and DVI->VGA ports is wonderful -- almost as good as my MacOSX dual-headed box :). I recommend downloading the latest drivers from Matrox, specifically the BETA Linux Driver for XFree86 4.2.0, 4.2.1, and 4.3.0 (dated Jul 21, 2003, a.k.a. the Beta 3.0 drivers). I pulled these down, installed them and re-ran Xconfigure. Then I hacked the resulting XF86Config file to enable Xinerama, add a second videocard device, a second screen, and modified the ServerLayout section to put the screens in the right order (oddly enough, reversed from the ATI order). A restart of X and everything works great. And thankfully no display glitches at all, AFAICT. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Anybody wanna buy an ATI 7500 PCI card, cheap? -Barry _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
