vid card issue

[mike webster]

Peter, thanks for the reply.

I now have xinerama working.  I ended up using two cards instead of a
single dual-head.  Of course I needed to modify the
/etc/X11/XF86Config.  For reference, the AGP card is a GeForce2 MX 100,
and the PCI is an ATI Radeon 7500.

Mike.


On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:11, Peter Eddy wrote:
> mike webster wrote:
> 
> > The only problem I ran across was with my dual-headed Matrox G-450 video
> > card.  Symptoms were very inconsistent.  Upon initial power-on with the
> > first CD, when trying to launch X for the graphical install - the box
> > locked hard.  Okay, I'll just install using text mode - I got all the
> > way through the install, then upon firstboot, X wouldn't start.  The box
> 
> For what it's worth, I too have a dual-headed G450 but I was able to 
> install and boot at runlevel 5 with no problems. No problems, except 
> that my fonts are screwed up somehow. I haven't had time to investigate 
> the problem, but it might have something to do with me using Matrox's X 
> drivers instead of the default.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
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