Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 00:40
I want to connect 3 monitors to my machine. How should i proceed without using a multi monitor card ? I have 3 graphics card with me right now.
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 00:46
See the Multi-Monitor Guide for detailed information.
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 00:49
I tried connecting 3 monitors using 3 Trident cards. But display came only in 1 monitor. Is it the problem of card or the driver ?
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 00:52
What operating system are you using?
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 00:55
Windows NT
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 00:58
This won't work, NT has no native multi-monitor support, which means that multi-monitor only works with special cards and drivers.
See Multimon with Windows NT 4 for more information.
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 01:07
I tried an appian multimonitor card which suports 4 monitors in the Nt environment and was succesfulBut i don't want that.I want to connect 3 moniors to my system using 3 cards.so u mean to say that it is not possible in Nt, right??So what should i do to conect these 3 monitors to my NT machine??
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 01:15
If you want to stay with NT, you need to get a card from one of the manufacturers listed in the review, there is no other way.
Your other option is upgrading to Win98 or 2000, but the Trident cards will most likely not work as secondary on Windows 2000.
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 01:22
So u mean to say i have to go for 3 matrox or ATI cards if i need to stayin NT
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 01:32
3 Matrox cards may work, but you need to check with Matrox which combinations of cards are supported for multi-monitor use on NT4.
3 ATI cards or any other combination of multiple cards will not work, as far as I know Matrox is the only manufacturer who has supported multiple cards on NT4.
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 01:36
That was a very valuable piece of information
Thanks very much
Now what if i want to have multiple monitors in a solaris machine??Which combination of cards sould i use?I am asking this cuaz i would need my application to run on a solaris platform as well
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 01:40
Can't help you with that, I have no experience with Solaris.
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 01:46
That's fine.
One more clarification. Using 3 different cards connected to a system, is it possible to stretch one window across all the 3 monitors or will the window come in just one monitor.Should i use some extra software for that??
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Christian Studer 2001-08-29 01:52
You can stretch a window across multiple monitors, no extra software is required. The 3 monitors are treated as a single large desktop.
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 01:54
Thanks a lot
That's all for the time bieng
Going out
will be back within half an hour
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Jerrin Jos 2001-08-29 03:38
Whom should i contact for getting help regarding the multi monitors in UNIX environment ?
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