| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 31 Aug 2000 at 05:32:42 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: d'Amiga and XFree86 4.x |
You can also get MetroX or the XIG drivers. They support the G400 DH.
-Pat
Gregory Roberts II wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> After having (finally) received my new d'Amiga system, I was thinking
> about taking the plunge and putting on those new drivers for dual head.
> My understanding is that this requires the installation of the newest
> XFree86.
>
> My question is this: am I going to cause myself support nightmares by
> causing my d'Amiga to deviate from standard? :-)
>
> On a more serious note, I was curious to know if anyone has done this?
> (I'm assuming *someone* has, but you know what they say...) Can you give
> me some hints, tips or warnings on this procedure? Being a relative Linux
> newbie I'd rather not trash anything.
>
> I've had a look over the installation instructions and it seems pretty
> straight forward. Should I just follow along and I'll be all set?
>
> And one last thing.... can someone repost the URL for the Matrox drivers?
>
> Sorry if this is off-topic, feel free to mail privately.
>
> Thanks Much!
> Greg
>
> p.s. on a slightly unrelated note, can someone recommend a good xterm?
> I've been using the generic one, but I'd really love to be able to copy
> text out of it. (Say URLs to paste into a browser... :-)
>
> --
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