On Friday 11 Nov 2005 14:34, Aron Smith wrote:
>
> When I set it up I had the external monitor connected , now configure
> the Video display under mcc, If it detects a twin head arrangement it
> will give you the option to configure the heads independently or
> together.
Is this under Hardware > Configure Your Monitor? If so, it doesn't see
the external monitor as being a twin-head arrangement, so maybe I can't
do this.
> and yes you can have different resolutions on them
> Laptop running 1024X768 17" Flatscreen running 1280X1024 @60cycles
> what I cannot do, is display both at once [even though my
> documentation says that I can]
Could it be because they are different resolution? Does it work if you
set them both to 1024x768?
Anne
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When I went to MCC - Configure your monitor I see a title "configure for head 1" so I asume it would probably need to detect your hardware first so you can have another device to choose from. Maybe with the profiles->new menu?
