Multiple Monitors
My Dad has a giant 21" Apple CRT display which is sitting under his desk unused, it was stolen a year or two ago and then dropped when the police car arrived, there is some damage to the base, and the front panel around the screen, but it apparently works fine.
I already have a 17" monitor connected to my G4 at home and if we can get this giant monitor home and onto a desk, I would like to create an extended desktop.
1) is there anywhere near south london that could carry out repairs on this monitor (although these aren't crucial)
2) will my computer support the extended desktop
3) where do I start, I have an ATI Rage Pro 128, would I be right in thinking that this has one DVI, and one VGA port? I may upgrade soon to the ATI Radeon 9000 though. Obviously I will need adapters or cables, but what will I need to buy and how will I go about connecting two monitors at once?
Does anyone have experience with this?
Andrew
I already have a 17" monitor connected to my G4 at home and if we can get this giant monitor home and onto a desk, I would like to create an extended desktop.
1) is there anywhere near south london that could carry out repairs on this monitor (although these aren't crucial)
2) will my computer support the extended desktop
3) where do I start, I have an ATI Rage Pro 128, would I be right in thinking that this has one DVI, and one VGA port? I may upgrade soon to the ATI Radeon 9000 though. Obviously I will need adapters or cables, but what will I need to buy and how will I go about connecting two monitors at once?
Does anyone have experience with this?
Andrew
Comments
"On cards with 16MB of video memory, Quartz
Extreme is not supported in the extended desktop
mode of multiple-display configurations. Quartz
Extreme is supported in video mirroring mode."
The ATI Radeon 8500 has 64mb, so should it be okay to run QE on both monitors?
Both monitors have VGA connectors, the 8500 has one DVI and one VGA port, to plug both in I'm guessing I'll have to buy a DVI to VGA adapter..
Andrew
Andrew