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Dual monitors off X60 in rep or dock?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 11:22 am
by wackydan
Has anyone gotten this to work.
Dual monitors off of the dock, mini-dock, or replicator with an x60?
If so, what were your machine specs?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 2:59 pm
by wackydan
bump
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:14 pm
by qviri
Do you mean the Thinkpad screen and two external monitors? Or Thinkpad screen and one other monitor?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 6:57 pm
by tomh009
Basically you cannot get two external monitors, unless you buy one of the few CardBus-based video cards on the market to supplement the built-in external video.
If all you want is built-in LCD with one external monitor, that's no trouble at all.
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 7:05 pm
by qviri
tomh009 wrote:Basically you cannot get two external monitors, unless you buy one of the few CardBus-based video cards on the market to supplement the built-in external video.
What about two external monitors connected to a dual-head PCI card in the dock? Would that work?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:24 pm
by wackydan
ah... won;t work with the dock... you need the ultra base and that only supports one output.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:17 am
by foodle
qviri wrote:What about two external monitors connected to a dual-head PCI card in the dock? Would that work?
The X60(s) "dock" (really the ultrabase) doesn't support a PCI-E card. Only the T-series Advanced Dock supports a PCI-E card.
You could try one of the Maxtrox DualHead2Go products if the X60(s) graphics card can support high-resolution outputs. It basically takes a large resolution output and splits it between two displays. Look here -->
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:16 am
by qviri
Ah, right, I forgot that there's no full-blown dock compatible with the X60 series. Sorry.
Good idea with the Matrox box. The Matrox website does not explicitly state compability with either X60 directly or the GMA950 used for graphics. However, the X31 and the X40 series
are declared as compatible. Using their
Compability Tool is probably a good idea.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:33 am
by tomh009
Note that while dualhead2go gives you two external monitors, they will not be two independent monitors -- your desktop will be extended across the two.
Also, the GMA 950 graphics has a max resolution of 2048x1536, so while I'm pretty confident that you could do 2x1024x768 (two 15" panels) I'm less confident that you can do 2x1280x1024 (two 19" panels). 2x1600x1200 is definitely out of the question.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:07 pm
by smvp6459
tomh009 wrote:Also, the GMA 950 graphics has a max resolution of 2048x1536, so while I'm pretty confident that you could do 2x1024x768 (two 15" panels)
Wouldn't 2048x1536 mean four 15" panels? I would think 2048x768 or 1024x1536 would result from two panels.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 4:07 am
by tomh009
smvp6459 wrote:tomh009 wrote:Also, the GMA 950 graphics has a max resolution of 2048x1536, so while I'm pretty confident that you could do 2x1024x768 (two 15" panels)
Wouldn't 2048x1536 mean four 15" panels? I would think 2048x768 or 1024x1536 would result from two panels.
Yes. But since DualHead2Go only supports two panels, all you can do is 2x1024x768, resulting in an effective 2048x768 display.