Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-13 Thread Mike Dresser
On 11 Feb 2002, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I have looked at the Radeon 7500 and it looks promising. The trouble > with nVidia is they don't manufacture their own cards so I have to try > and find a manufacturer's website. I didn't see anything at Elsa that > had dual-head. Any specific suggestions o

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:09:43AM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > I have heard a lot of people say the same thing as you, though (that you > have to run both heads at the same resolution). Can you point to a doc > where you read this? Or describe the problems that arise when you run > the heads at

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-12 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:07:40 -0800 "Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my own configuration I had Xinerama working fine with 2 > seperate cards... My problem was they were not identical so I had to > run the display at the lower cards maximum settings for both cards... > This

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Blake Barnett
ASUS has some of the deluxe model nVidia cards (http://www.asus.com) This LCD buyer's guide by ArsTechnica may be of some help describing the difference between the two interfaces: http://arstechnica.com/guide/flatpanel/flatpanels-1.html Good luck! On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 13:35, Gary Hennigan wrot

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Blake Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You also have to live with the lower bandwidth of PCI, as it forces you > to have either 1 AGP & 1 PCI or 2 PCI for it to work. Moving > applications and such between the two screens can be painful. Though > definately not a show-stopper. Especially

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Blake Barnett
You also have to live with the lower bandwidth of PCI, as it forces you to have either 1 AGP & 1 PCI or 2 PCI for it to work. Moving applications and such between the two screens can be painful. Though definately not a show-stopper. Especially if you're like me and have a fairly static layout on

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:46:55PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I'm "upgrading" from dual CRT monitors to a dual 20" LCD setup. The > problem is I have a G400 that can only do 1280x1024 and the flat > panels I'm buying optimally require 1600x1200. Additionally I'd really > like to ditch the analog