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Dual Head eCs 2.0 using Matrox MGA-G450 -- How to?

Started by klipp, 2009.12.12, 22:07:23

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klipp

Could some kind soul explain to me how to make this work! I'm using eCs 2.0 Silver with Snap and can only come up with Identical screens on each display. Changing configuration settings in SNAP (Multihead) changes nothing. Can't make it work on the latest versions of Mandriva (2009 &2010) either but works fine on Windoz.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

klipp
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RobertM

I believe you would need to install the Matrox OS/2 drivers to enable Multi-Head Support. I think there was a copy on Hobbes someplace, but I dont recall if the OS/2 drivers supported anything above the MGA200.

Best,
Robert


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RobertM

The driver you need is matroxg450_v2.54.130.zip

Ian Manners may have a copy of it still. Sadly, his site is offline due to abuses by those mirroring it. He is often on the forums and may be able to help you out, or you may find it elsewhere...

Best,
Robert

PS: Ian, I would be glad to host the OS2Site for you, for free. Contact me if interested.


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klipp

Thanks RobertM for your replies & info, I just bought this card as it is known to work for dual monitors in OS/2 and I was hoping to eliminate all the problems trying to accomplish the same thing with a mixture of Nvidia & ATI. Looks like I'm S.O.L. though unless I can come up with the particular driver you mentioned. Is there any way of contacting Ian and getting a copy of this driver from him? (Maybe?)

thanks again  klipp
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RobertM

Quote from: klipp on 2009.12.13, 00:01:34
Thanks RobertM for your replies & info, I just bought this card as it is known to work for dual monitors in OS/2 and I was hoping to eliminate all the problems trying to accomplish the same thing with a mixture of Nvidia & ATI. Looks like I'm S.O.L. though unless I can come up with the particular driver you mentioned. Is there any way of contacting Ian and getting a copy of this driver from him? (Maybe?)

thanks again  klipp

You can PM IBManners on the forum. Click HERE to do so.

If I dig it up, I will let you know. I did have it at one time...

Best,
Rob


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Robert Deed

Quote from: RobertM on 2009.12.12, 23:05:29
The driver you need is matroxg450_v2.54.130.zip

Ian Manners may have a copy of it still. Sadly, his site is offline due to abuses by those mirroring it. He is often on the forums and may be able to help you out, or you may find it elsewhere...

Best,
Robert

PS: Ian, I would be glad to host the OS2Site for you, for free. Contact me if interested.

I am not sure if the Matrox drivers would really help all that much, there was some issues with the BIOS on the g450's which caused them to get stuck in clone mode outside of windows.   If you cannot get things working with these drivers let me know, I have a g400max which does infact work in dualhead in OS/2 (I did so for quite some time) with SNAP which is not doing much good to me right now.

klipp

WoW! Its starting to look like dual moniters is no longer an option for eCs 2.0.  How in the world can we stay competitive when we can no longer offer this option, a well as Flash 10  to prospective users?
  I want sincerly for this O.S. to fly, and fly BIG!  But , my GOD , where are we , when w can't offer the Basics?

klipp
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Fahrvenugen

Check here:

http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/video/matrox/index.html

Looks like the driver is still available, I was able to download it just now.

Although I have never owned one of these cards, so I have no idea how it works dual-head.


RobertM

There seems to be an updated or newer version than the one I listed (though the file date is a few days earlier):

http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/video/matrox/os2_258.zip

I am presuming that is version 2.58, while the one I listed earlier is v2.54 I suspect.

Thank you Ian for putting your site back online!

Best,
Rob


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Andi

Quote from: klipp on 2009.12.13, 04:45:16
WoW! Its starting to look like dual moniters is no longer an option for eCs 2.0.  How in the world can we stay competitive when we can no longer offer this option, a well as Flash 10  to prospective users?
  I want sincerly for this O.S. to fly, and fly BIG!  But , my GOD , where are we , when w can't offer the Basics?

klipp
I've tried out dual monitor with my G550 but I've no need for dual display anymore cause -
- the WPS / eCS / OS/2 do not allow to have two different screen resolutions on the two screens
- I find it quite annoying to have this black area between the two screens
- for completely different tasks it's easier for me to set up a second, third, fourth PC with their own display than having all on one machine with one/two monitors

So I've bought a 24" with 1920x1200 pixel and hope sometimes there's the possibility to drive even bigger displays via dual DVI connection. Continuing graphic driver development for the basics ( (dual-)DVI with each modern card) is much more needed than dual display support for ancient graphic adapters I think.

klipp

Hey! Thanks to all! Especially to Rob & Ian -- I still havn't had a chance to get it working, but at least there's "light at the end of the tunnel" now. An Andi, in my case I will be using the same resolution on both monitors, but I agree the DVI development would be a bigger step forward.
  Thanks again to all of you!

klipp
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klipp

Well, I'm back! --- the light at the end of the tunnel has disappeared! I've tried the 2.58 drivers and can configure the Primary Display but when configuring the Secondary display it asks for OS/2's Display Disk 1. I don't have the floppys anymore only Warp4.5 cd which when I try to create to display disk1 it says my disks (floppy's -3.5's) are incompatable. Its looking for SVGA.DSP and will only accept getting it from the display floppy, not from the Warp CD.
I'm out of ideas!

    Has anybody out there got eCs 2.0 working with two monitors using ANY display adapter card? (but preferrably the Matrox 450!). If I have to, I'll "PoP" for another card that is known to work with eCs.

thanks  klipp
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Fahrvenugen

Hi,

If I recall correctly, the Warp 4  display disc is an XDF floppy.  Somewhere on that CD you should be able to find a disk image file for Display Disk 1, you should also be able to find a copy of xdfcopy.exe (or it might be xdfcopy.com, I can't remember).  Use that utility to create your floppy from your image:

xdfcopy imagename.ext a:

And see if that works.


klipp

Fahrvenugen, you were correct! xdfcopy is also included in the eCs  CD, But it wouldn't work until I installed the matching .flt file as a BASEDEV in the config.sys. It then created the Display Driver Disk 1. I thought I was home free, until it couldn't find the display profile (.DSP) it needed on that floppy.
Thanks for you're help! -- at least I'm a little smarter now, I can create OS/2 floppys -- but still no dual monitors.

klipp
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RobertM

Try resetting your video driver to standard VGA. Reboot, then try again...

That should hopefully install the necessary components you need.

Best,
Rob


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