Ahhh, gotcha. Yes, that is a crappy display mode. It sounds like you use the same video mode with your Parhelia that I do with my G400 card. Matrox really has nice drivers and support pretty much all modes possible. According to their web site, the reason they can do the dual res. desktop thing in Win2K is that Win2K requires two physically separate video controllers (which they have, effectively 2 cards on a chip) and they also hack the Win2K GDI kernel to provide two virtual drivers from one physical chip (something Win98 and WinXP support natively, but Win2K does not). They also spent a long time writing (very) stable drivers to achieve this.
At this point in time, nVidia and ATI appear to consider Win2K extinct and aren't about to spend any money or time writing drivers to make their cards work this way in Win2K. Matt On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:50:42 +0100, Rich Thompson wrote: > Matt > > Not sure if we are talking about the same thing or not. When I said > stretch I meant the cheap cards that run the display at eg 2048xx768 > and stretch it across the two monitors. The 'start' menu then appears > on the left monitor while the 'clock' appears on the right monitor. > Both monitors have to run at the same res (as it is actually) > > I can drag stuff from one monitor to the other, but they are actually > completely separate with regards desktop area and resolution (no task > bar on the second) windows correctly maximise to the respective > monitor and appear correctly on the designated monitor, rather than > centred between the two. What a pain that is. > > Take Care > > Rich > > -----Original Message----- From: Matt Pobursky > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2004 21:07 To: > Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Multiple Displays > > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:19:41 +0100, Rich Thompson wrote: > > I've got a matrox parhelia with two seventeen inch tft displays at > > 1280*1024. works great. I generally have the panels open all of > the > > time on the second monitor, main workspace on the primary. > Different > > resolutions should be fine as long as your gfx card doesn't > 'stretch' > > the display across the two monitors (which sucks) make sure they > > are > > > I actually like this mode -- you can just drag stuff from one desktop > to another. I tried two separate desktops (horizontal and vertical) > and didn't like it as well. > > Matt Pobursky Maximum Performance Systems * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
