Need help with monitor & dualoutput card

[huzefa1]

My cousin is going home for the holidays and he's leaving his LCD behind at my place. I have a dual output card, (one is Vga, the other is dvi-i), but this LCD seems to have a VGA input (I can plug it in directly to where my old CRT VGA monitor was). So my question is this: Is there a vga to dvi-i convertor so I can hook up both to my video card ? Thanks

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[minendo]

<< Is there a vga to dvi-i convertor so I can hook up both to my video card ? >>


Yes. I got that adapter with my Radeon 8500. However I am not sure where you can pick them up from.

 

[huzefa1]

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<< Is there a vga to dvi-i convertor so I can hook up both to my video card ? >>


Yes. I got that adapter with my Radeon 8500. However I am not sure where you can pick them up from. >>



So you can plug any old VGA CRT into the DVI-I slot of your 8500?

 

[Peter]

Yes you can. DVI-I has the analog red, green, blue on the connector as well. That's the difference to
DVI-D. All you need is the physical adapter to the old 15-pin VGA connector. ATi's multi head capable
cards w/ DVI include it (Radeon 7000, 7500, 8500).

regards, Peter

 

[huzefa1]

<< Yes you can. DVI-I has the analog red, green, blue on the connector as well. That's the difference to
DVI-D. All you need is the physical adapter to the old 15-pin VGA connector. ATi's multi head capable
cards w/ DVI include it (Radeon 7000, 7500, 8500).

regards, Peter >>



Thanks, I found the connector, hooked it up, enabled Desktop extension and it works fine! But I'm having a hard time figuring out how to put different wallpapers on each screen. Also the start menu bar does not show up in the second monitor. Can I fix that someway? Thanks for all your help guys.

 

[huzefa1]

Bump

 

[Peter]

You can only have one menu bar. Move it to either screen. About the wallpapers, I dunno. Maybe your Windows flavor doesn't support having different ones either.

regards, Peter

 

[huzefa1]

<< You can only have one menu bar. Move it to either screen. About the wallpapers, I dunno. Maybe your Windows flavor doesn't support having different ones either.

regards, Peter >>



Thx for replying. I guess I can't do much about the menu bar. But if it makes any difference for the wallpaper, I have windows xp installed.

 

[fr]

If you are running both screens at 1024x768, create a wallpaper that's 2048x768. Tile it and it will span across both screens. So basically, just put both wallpapers together as one wide image.

On Matrox DualHead cards, you can stretch the taskbar across both screens.

 

[RPB]

install the hydravision software if you want the taskbar to span both monitors.