Matrox G450 Dual Head

[Tom Marshall]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:40:51AM -0500, 'Forum Post wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've just purchased a used Matrox G450 PCI card. I've installed the
> hardware, but Ubuntu 5.10 could not startup with it. I've reinstalled
> Ubuntu 5.10, but my LCD screen remains black. The card is correctly
> working under Windows XP.
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> My system is a Shuttle ST62K (Zen) with onboard ATI 9100IGP and a
> Samsung SyncMaster 173P LCD display connected via the DVI connection.
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> I suppose that during installation Ubuntu recognize and install the ATI
> drivers ignoring the PCI Matrox card or some other conflict occours.
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> Can you tell me what can I do to use this graphics card on Ubuntu?
> Please try to explain considering that I'm still newbie with Linux
> settings.

The first thing I would try is switching to a VT (ctrl+alt+f1) and running
this command:

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

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