Dual Screens - Radeon 9250 256mb

[marsden1002]

Hi,
Wondering i anyone can help me. I have two monitors both plugged in, and the most i can do is strech the desktop accorss them. This means, i cannot drag anything onto the second monitor to use it.

Tried to install latest drivers, Catalyst 5.9 Windows XP, install them and i get a message - something about "unable to Initialize, then a load of random numbers.

Please could someone help me, as i would like to use the two screens for surfing two different webpages side by side, and watching tv on one, and LFS on the other.


Cheers in advance,

Also, can i use the screen as two seprate areas, ie have icons on both screens. Ie have Internet on screen two, and it will launch on screen two.

[dgmorr]

I'm using two monitors with a 9800 AIW. Dragging across both screens works fine for me. Just using the latest drivers.

Is there anyway to stretch LFS over both monitors?

[jmkz]

@dgmorr: install ATI Hydravision, should give you the option to make your 2 monitors into "a very big one" resolution 2560x1024 and such. In LFS "Screen" menu enable "show none-square" and than select the large resolutions, and you're in dual-screen world. But unless you find a way to remove the border of your 2 screens , you'll have the center of your screen right in the middle of those 2 monitors

@marsden: I advise you install Hydravision also, and maybe UltraMon too.. but not before you get your vidcard driver installation fixed. Download Drive Cleaner: http://www.drivercleaner.net/

download latest Catalyst (with Control Panel) and reinstall

[dgmorr]

@dgmorr: install ATI Hydravision, should give you the option to make your 2 monitors into "a very big one" resolution 2560x1024 and such. In LFS "Screen" menu enable "show none-square" and than select the large resolutions, and you're in dual-screen world. But unless you find a way to remove the border of your 2 screens , you'll have the center of your screen right in the middle of those 2 monitors

@marsden: I advise you install Hydravision also, and maybe UltraMon too.. but not before you get your vidcard driver installation fixed. Download Drive Cleaner: http://www.drivercleaner.net/

download latest Catalyst (with Control Panel) and reinstall

How about if i were to use 3 monitors? Would things line up decently enough to play in a more surrounded environment like idea?

[jmkz]

there is only 1 videocard on the market which allows 3 monitors and does not have ATI or nVidia performance :(

look for Matrox and this thread: http://www.lfsforum.com/showthread.php?t=1930

[P5YcHoM4N]

there is only 1 videocard on the market which allows 3 monitors and does not have ATI or nVidia performance :(

look for Matrox and this thread: http://www.lfsforum.com/showthread.php?t=1930
Which is why you chuck in a PCI card too ;) :P

I find turning this on helps as far as dualscreen goes (and btw, 256mb is wasted in your card. It wont have the power to fill it.):
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/306/thaton5ou.jpg (http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/306/thaton5ou.th.jpg)

Though just an idea. But wouldn't the VO socket most graphics cards come with work for the third screen. I would test it on my card, but I left the cables at home, and I already use the 4 sockets I have in my flat, for my two monitors, the PC and my sound system, and with the uni's stupid "you break 5amps you trip the power box in your room" rule, I can't run powerbanks. >.<

[jmkz]

Which is why you chuck in a PCI card too ;) :P

and how exactly is that PCI card going to provide you with a 3D image? ;)

[P5YcHoM4N]

and how exactly is that PCI card going to provide you with a 3D image? ;)
:rolleyes2

Though I've no clue if the LFS engine supports multipal cards, I can't get it to spread over both of my screens >.<

[jmkz]

that's because Direct3D does not support games to spread out over different videocards :)

[P5YcHoM4N]

that's because Direct3D does not support games to spread out over different videocards :)
I'm just using my two headed 9700pro. Left all my spare parts at home as I didn't have room coming to uni. So I can't test stuff out, but trust D3D to be lame (although at one uni I was going to, they edited D3D to work in a 3D Display dodar, which looked great, but hard as hell to play games like it).