Matrox G400 dual head monitor problem

[Blippe]

First of all, you really need a serverlayout, second, if you look at the
output from "man mga" in the console you can read the following line:
"The second head of dual-head cards  is supported  for  the G450 and
G550.  Support for the second head on G400 cards requires a binary-only
"mga_hal" module that  is  available  from Matrox 
<http://www.matrox.com>, and may be on the CD supplied with the card."



Sadly, matrox haven't released a new driver for Xorg7.0.0 (the X-server
that ubuntu uses) but has promised to do so, as quickly as a distro
released a non-beta release which uses Xorg7. But a few days before the
release of ubuntu dapper, they decided not to. 



So, what to do? Well, if you look at the matrox forums, you will find
that a really dedicated fan of matrox cards has released yet another
mga-driver for linux which which uses hal, and this time for Xorg7. You
can find his homepage at http://tuxx-home.at/ 



If you have any problems with his driver try posting at the matrox
forums, as they're the most knowledgable (and since the creator of the
driver is there).


-- 
Blippe