On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Friday, October 28, 2005, at 09:47 AM, Ian Nixon wrote:
Hi all...
I was just curious - with a Radeon 9200 Mac Edition installed, can I
leave the stock card in and use *both* cards to run two VGA monitors?
Also, with the said card, how many monitors total can the G3 support?
Yes you can leave the stock card in, but the 9200 can drive 2 displays
and should be able to drive the 2 faster than the stock rage card. My
advice would be to put the 9200 in the 66MHz pci slot and run two
monitors off of that.
Then if you want, run the third monitor off of the stock card in
another slot. You can then add 2 more 9200 to run a total of 7
monitors. FWIW, when the Mac II came out with 6 slots, they demo'd it
with 6 monitors running off of it and ever since then, Macs have
supported multiple monitors natively- just plug in the card(s) and go.
HTH
Len
A few years back I found myself with a bunch of NuBus video cards, so I
stuck some in an 8100 and was running four big monitors on it. It was
interesting threading the mouse cursor through them all, but they all
worked fine (no jiggles if I left a little space between them) and I
could park my Photoshop palettes all over the place, with miles of
available screen real estate (which felt downright weird after years of
using little Mac Pluses and SE's with their itty-bitty screens). A
friend with a PC saw my multiple-monitor setup and decided he wanted to
run extra screens too, with Windows. He managed to get two monitors
hooked up, but they just mirrored each other, much to his disgust.
With all those CRTs running at once, plus the Mac itself, I had a warm
little room that winter! I probably glowed in the dark, too, from all
the electromagnetic radiation coming at me from all directions.
Tom
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