Duo Display Problem

[David Leedy]

I have an A31p that I'm trying to setup in dual display. It's connected to a mini-dock and the native resolution is 1600 x 1200. I have a samsung LCD that runs @ 1280x1024. I've bumped my laptop respoution down to 1280x1024. I'm running XP.

I want my thinkpad LCD to be monitor 2 and the samsung to be monitor 1. This works fine except when I do this the thinkpad screen doesn't do expansion to fill the screen. I have black borders around everything. If I change my thinkpad display to monitor 1 then screen expansion works normally.

Does anyone know if there is a workaround to this?

Thanks

Dave

[a31pguy]

I use a program called ultramon. Check it out. http://www.ultramon.com it has support for display profiles and customizing the primary monitor as well as reassigning the primary monitor.

it's a multi-display manager. It will change the displays for you, put a smart taskbar on your extra displays, give you buttons to move windows in one click, and allow for custom screen savers. It's worth the look.

Also - if you are running mutiple displays - stay away from IBM presentation manager. it will royally mess up your display settings when using multiple monitors.

Having mutiple monitors rocks!

[tore45]

Also - if you are running mutiple displays - stay away from IBM presentation manager. it will royally mess up your display settings when using multiple monitors.

Strange. My experience with IBM Presentation Manager is very good. I find it simplifies usinge multiple monitors.... Make sure you use the newest version....