Posted on 02/27/2009 10:33:26 PM PST by george76
I hook up our flat screen TV to a computer to stream Netflix all upon. I can’t do that with my new computer as it hasn’t the HDMI output, but I gave my old computer with HDMI to my wife....
I tested it by streaming Netflix movies over there while running my FLight Simulator over here. Worked great, I couldn’t believe it. I thought the sim would choke.
Using Linux Mint 6.0 with Compiz Fusion desktop....no time at all.
'See'...The Cube.
'Be'...the Cube.
I attached a second monitor to my pc at work a few months ago.
Can’t go back to one monitor. Just can’t do it.
I did the same, two weeks ago.
Got tired of squinting at pdf drawings on my field laptop so I set up a 22" flat in the construction trailer to get the whole picture, so to speak.
It seems to aggravate the client when you miss a parallel relay trip circuit that engineering put on the left (control) instead of the traditional right (protection) in the schematics.
Ooops, sorry about dumping that 421 megawatts of load. Shouldn't happen again!
Is that your system? I have an array almost like that except it is 2 tiered, 4 22’s on the bottom run by a desktop and a separate system with 3 17’s on top run by a laptop. You have to back up away from the system to actually use it! lol
“The add-on card will probably automatically disable the onboard video. At least, that’s what my PC did.”
Up to this thread, that would have been my expectation as well. But neither of us thought of (or knew about) clicking the “2 monitor” mode thingy. Of course now I HAVE to try that. I shall report back!
Hey, it works! (with an integrated eg; video-on-motherboard computer)
This is throwing a POS plain vanilla video card from an older Dell into a newer hp. Had to reboot, go into setup, and enable integrated video, as the add-in card DID disable the integrated video. Furthermore, the “graphics properties” and “graphics options” selections DID NOT show up on rt-clicking on a piece of unused desktop. On control panel, display, settings, display properties I was able to drag multiple windows onto one monitor, work them, and leave others on the other monitor. Have to figure out which one you wish to be your primary (an arbitrary decision) and of course, only one monitor is going to have your “start” tile and only one monitor is going to display the “status” of all the apps/WDO tiles you have open. To open a new app you have to go to the primary monitor, I assume. You can of course close anything on the slave monitor with the red “X” or Alt-f4 and open add’l browser wdos/tabs with alt-f-n-w. The extra monitor is simply extra “wall space”, and I could see that being useful.
No. Currently I am running just one 20" and two 17" monitors, each usually on its own computer, with the monitors all on an L shaped Bush desk. I know, I'm a Luddite.
My eyes quickly become exhausted when there is too much monitor light. I would last about 30 minutes on your system.
I’m glad that it worked out for you.
I’m in Denver right now, waiting for a connecting flight to my final destination, so it’s a tad bit of a challenge to check to see if my PC back in Virginia supports what you just did. ;)
But if now, I’ll just buy a dual-head PCIe graphics card when I next spot a good deal.
Well, I trade futures for a living and need lots of real estate for charts, news, etc. If not for that I could get by with 2 monitors.
I use either cube, or present desktop activated by screen hotspots. The latter is a little quicker, but the cube is cool.
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