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

Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
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 outputs and go to full digital between my box and the monitors, and I'