[thelist] Which Monitor Size Should I Use?

[Seb Barre]

At 05:29 PM 12/11/2000 +0000, you wrote:

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>At 12:21 11/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
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> >Actually I believe that is a problem with the dual head G400, not the
> >operating system.  We just went through that here at work with
> >workstations that had dual head G400s, and it was solved by replacing the
> >G400 with two separate video cards.  Under Win2k, they are now running in
> >separate resolutions on each (different sized) monitor without a problem.
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>But the point of a G400 Dualhead, is so that you don't HAVE to get 2
>graphics cards!
>It worked an absolute dream on Win98.

Fair enough, I was just pointing out that under Win NT/2k it's not an OS 
problem, it's a video card problem with the G400.  Your message seemed to 
state that the operating system was the limiting factor.

You said, referring to dual monitors: "don't bother with NT4 or Win2K 
unless you've got 2 monitors the same size, as it doesn't support dual 
screen sizes.", when in fact it's a problem with the particular video card, 
or more likely the WinNT/2k drivers for that video card, which are produced 
by Matrox, not Microsoft.

I was only trying to clear up that misconception so others don't draw an 
incorrect conclusion.  Maybe in time, correct NT/2k drivers will come out 
for the G400 to enable multi-resolution across different monitors with the 
card.


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