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To: David_I who wrote (11500)11/17/2000 12:33:06 PM
From: Moving Sphere  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
>>"Colorgraphic Predator Pro & LT, dual/quad video cards"<<

Because of my problem with the Matrox G400, I suggest that you find out if the Colorgraphic Predator Pro or LT use a single graphic chip for dual head or two individual graphic chips for each head in the dual head. In the case of quad, find out if 4 graphic chips is used. Reason is that my Matrox G400 uses only a single graphic chip for the dual head.

Windows 2000 finds only one graphic chip on my Matrox G400 and thus treat it like a single monitor/window instead of two separate monitors. My quad Appian Jeronimo has 4 graphic chips on the PCI card (two chips on my Appian dual head card), therefore, Windows 2000 see 4 monitors instead of one. You can easily see this by going to the display setting. With my Matrox G400, I can't even see a monitor choice for me to pick because Windows 2000 only recognize one chip (one monitor). But with the Appian dual and quad, I can see all six monitors on the display setting for me to pick and choose to modify screen size and such.

The above issue is moot if Colorgraphic's Windows 2000 driver takes care of the separate monitor issue regardless of the number of graphic chip. However, I do not know if there is a software solution to this or not since Matrox G400 could not work around this single chip limitation with their own Windows 2000 driver.

Hope it helps...
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