Hi Matt!
Have you tried to disable VGA on one of the cards? There should be a DIP
switch on the Matrox-card.
Hope that helps...
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Matt Spong wrote:
->Hi
->
->I have an LX164 with 2 Matrox Millenium 2's and I'm trying to get
->multihead working.
->
->I am using kernel 2.2.12 and I have compiled matroxfb support into the
->kernel and am sending the kernel "video=matrox:vesa:0x108" as a parameter.
->It works fine if there is only 1 card in the machine, but when the other
->card is in it stops booting as soon as Milo passes control to the kernel
->(this is the point where it shows the Matrox BIOS screen again with only
->one card in the machine) The screen blanks and the machine halts at this
->point - no more noises from the hard drive, and it never shows up on the
->network.
->
->Is it possible to get this working with this particular setup? If so, can
->somebody help me out here?
->
->It's not so critical to have kernel-level multihead working, but I need to
->be able to use Xinerama with XFree86 4, and at the moment I can't even
->boot up the machine if there is more than one video card in it.
->
->Thanks
->Matt Spong
->spong@glue.umd.edu
->
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