Matrox G400DH + amd64

[Gary Jennejohn]

Oliver Lehmann writes:
> I've thought about kicking out my celeron 600 and get a new amd64 system
> (Asus A8V) - AGP because I want to reuse my old G400DH. I know that the
> binary drivers matrox supplies are only fuer i386... but did someone took
> the source and tried to compile it with xorg/xfree and amd64? Did it work?

AFAIK you have to use the mga_hal driver in order to support DVI, at
least, I did with my card. Matrox doesn't seem to provide any 64 bit
version of the mga_hal, so you can forget it. I had to switch to a cheap
AVI card to use my TFT in 64-bit mode. There doesn't seem to be any source
available for the mga_hal.

> If not.. any suggestion for a new graphic card which gives me the
> opportunity to connect two CRT monitors to it (no DVI) and is supported
> by xorg (xinerama)?

Don't know about xinerama. I'm only using one screen.

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