Bug 112938 - multihead matrox g550 fails with two graphic adapters (2x2)
Summary: multihead matrox g550 fails with two graphic adapters (2x2)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: SaX2 (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Stefan Dirsch
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Reported: 2005-08-25 10:55 UTC by Stephan Lauffer
Modified: 2005-08-26 09:29 UTC (History)
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Attachments
"Device Sections" of XF86Config from a 9.3 setup (1.19 KB, text/plain)
2005-08-25 10:58 UTC, Stephan Lauffer
Details
lspci -nv with the two matrox g550 adapters (3.73 KB, text/plain)
2005-08-25 10:59 UTC, Stephan Lauffer
Details

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Description Stephan Lauffer 2005-08-25 10:55:00 UTC
I'm not a X-expert, but on suse-9.3 sax2 was better in detecting the two g550
matrox dual head cards (one agp, one pci). What beta3 does:

On SuSE-10-Beta3 the primary/first vga-out of both graphic adapters were found
and I could configure them the yast-way (xinerama...). The second vga-out is
dead/not detected. The xorg.conf misses the device sections with "Screen 1".

On 9.3 the second vga-out was found on both cards but the 2nd of the pci adapter
faild until I modified the XF86Config. I'll attach the old XF86Config l8ters.

It's on you to decide if it's a "bug" or a not supported feature.

greetings, stephan
Comment 1 Stephan Lauffer 2005-08-25 10:58:02 UTC
Created attachment 47519 [details]
"Device Sections" of XF86Config from a 9.3 setup

I changed the XF86Config build by sax2 manually to get all 4 vga-outs working
on SuSE-9.3.
Comment 2 Stephan Lauffer 2005-08-25 10:59:23 UTC
Created attachment 47520 [details]
lspci -nv with the two matrox g550 adapters

maybe this lspci help. tell me if I could help out with some other
informatinos.
Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-26 09:22:06 UTC
you are right 9.3 tried to handle that crappy mga driver in dualhead  
mode but 10.0 won't because the quality is even worse than on 9.3 
10.0 will not support Matrox multihead environments by default. You can 
try to use: 
 
   sax2 -b /usr/share/sax/profile/Matrox_G550 
 
from runlevel 3 
 
but there is no support on the result  
  
  
Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-26 09:29:57 UTC
I agree.