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Thinkpad desktop extenstion....

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:28 pm
by SaberX
I have an older Thinkpad 390.(cel366,256ram,10gig).I'm running XP Pro.The video on the 390 is 2.5Meg NeoMagic MagicGraph256AV.
I have the 14.1" TFT thinkpad screen and a 17" CRT monitor connected.
All i'm getting is the same screen on both ,the LCD and CRT .
I know on some model's you can have the desktop so it expanes onto the 17" CRT.like a duel display mode.
I have looked for NeoMagic 256AV drivers for XP but cant find any.All that is on IBM.com is drivers for Win98.
I have looked evey where in display properties and dont see it.
Any one know if this can be doen?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:42 am
by doppelfish
It might be impossible because the chipset doesn't have enough memory to hold the contents of two screens. How much video memory do You have?

cheers,
-- fish

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:09 am
by SaberX
Thats it i think.Never even thought about that.
There is 2.5 meg video onboard.Not very much.
Time to get a new Thinkpad i guess.
Bill