[Dx4win] Dual monitors

[Mack Johnson N4SS]

The card I use is the same as Mark's, I believe. It is a Matrox Dual-Head 
G450. Sure makes a big difference when running DX4WIN, etc.
73's,
Mack N4SS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Mowery AA8TC" <aa8tc at hotmail.com>
To: "Jerry.Van" <jerry.van at sbcglobal.net>; "DX4WIN Mailing List" 
<dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:12 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] Dual monitors


> Hi Jerry,
>
> I ran into the same problem: between DX4WIN, ARCluster User, MMTTY, and 
> occasionally a web page all open at the same time, a single 17" monitor 
> just wasn't cutting it anymore. I had an old 19" CRT monitor around, so I 
> used that for a while, playing around with font sizes and different 
> resolutions, but in the end it didn't seem to add all that much more 
> useable area.
>
> I bought a used Matrox dual-head video card on eBay for $15 (including 
> shipping) so I was able to attach a second 17" monitor. If you have the 
> physical space on your desktop, you'll get much more usable monitor area 
> by going this way than by just increasing the size of your existing 
> monitor. W98SE and later is all ready for dual monitor support with only 
> minimal setup. It's pretty slick: as you move the mouse pointer off one 
> side of one screen it flows smoothly over onto the other monitor. You can 
> even position windows to span both monitors, although I'm not sure why 
> you'd really want to do that, hi.
>
> The older Matrox card works perfectly well with my shack computer, which 
> is itself an older Windows98 system, and I had the extra monitor anyway, 
> so $15 and a little setup time is all I have invested. I did have to 
> download the drivers off the internet, but they were still available on 
> the Matrox website.
>
> There's more than one maker of dual-head video cards. NVIDIA comes to 
> mind, and I'm sure there's others. You can also add a second used 
> single-head video card and plug a monitor into each card for just about 
> the same amount of money, but there compatibility issues that sometimes 
> come up when you try to plug more than one video card into the same 
> motherboard. If I had another video card laying around, I'd probably try 
> that first, but if I had to buy one, I'd go with a dual-head card.
>
> Anyway, food for thought.
>
> 73,
> Mark AA8TC
>
>
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