RE Dual monitors with a laptop

2004-02-18 Thread David Thomson
William Keogh wrote: I would like to have a dual monitor setup with a laptop (ie, use the laptop screen as the first screen and an external monitor as the second screen). Can anyone offer comparisons between such a setup and a desktop system with a high performance graphics card? I am concerned

Dual monitors with a laptop

2004-02-15 Thread William Keogh
with a high performance graphics card? I am concerned that the laptop graphics card may not give good video quality on the second monitor. The particular computer I am considering is a Dell X300, which has Intel 855GM graphics. Does anyone have experience with that graphics hardware running dual

Dual Monitors

2004-02-14 Thread Jack Hamilton
Matrox G550 card issues: I will add that there are some dual monitor quirks outside of LabVIEW. In windows, Microsoft Photo Editor will occasionally ‘break’ and either be full screen or minimized and do nothing in between. I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall the program to fix it. Some 3D

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Uwe Frenz
Scott, you asked on Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:27 -0600: Can anyone tell me what graphic cards work well with respect to using dual monitors and labview? How does the graphic card handle moving the display data from one monitor to another. I was considering the ATI Radeon 9800XT. Great

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Whitaker
Hi Scott, Can anyone tell me what graphic cards work well with respect to using dual monitors and labview? How does the graphic card handle moving the display data from one monitor to another. I was considering the ATI Radeon 9800XT. Great for gaming as well. I remember someone talking

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Howard, John
Uwe Frenz 02/13/04 02:49AM ...but almost all dual monitor cards should work well too. ... This may be true in general, although I saw one dual monitor card do nasty things. The brand name was something like Apien or Apex or something like that. (does that sound familiar to anyone?) It was

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Uwe Frenz
John, you wrote: I am using a Matrox G550, and it works wonderfully! (21,[EMAIL PROTECTED] + 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thats about or little above the specs, AFAIK. The highres requires a pixel clock of 160 MHz. The video bandwidth of that chips is not far beyond 250 MHz, so the signal quality

RE: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Scott Serlin
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dual monitors for labview use Hi Scott, Can anyone tell me what graphic cards work well with respect to using dual monitors and labview? How does the graphic card handle moving the display data from one monitor to another. I was considering the ATI Radeon 9800XT

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Howard, John
I seem to have more limitations imposed on me by the monitor than the video card. According to the G550 specs, it has dual integrated RAMDACs, a 360MHz Primary and a 230 MHZ Secondary. It claims up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the main display, but my monitor can't go that fast. Likewise, the

RE: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Scott Hannahs
At 10:34 -0600 02/13/2004, Scott Serlin wrote: What is the difference in performance I could see between running two separate pci cards, one pci card and one agp card, or one dual-monitor card? Depends on what else you use the PCI bus for. It is slower performance for raw bit pushing than the

RE: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Scott Serlin
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Uwe Frenz Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:50 AM To: Scott Serlin Cc: LV-Info, list Subject: Re: Dual monitors for labview use Scott, you asked on Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:27 -0600: Can anyone tell me what graphic cards work well with respect to using dual

RE: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread kwhite
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Scott Serlin wrote: What is the difference in performance I could see between running two separate pci cards, one pci card and one agp card, or one dual-monitor card? most likely, zero difference if you by a recent agp dual head card. possibly fewer driver issues

RE: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-12 Thread Scott Serlin
One clarification about the kvm switch. My second monitor is being shared with another machine via this switch since I already have a second computer. No need to buy a new monitor if this works out well. I wonder how well the switch would work with a DAQ card being routed through the SVGA

SV: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-12 Thread Knut Steinnes
In many cases it could be a broken backlight. If you do a search for LCD backlight you'll get a lot, but as a starting point... http://www.notebook-repair.net/lcd-repair.htm http://www.moniserv.com/doc/installation.htm Knut