Dual monitors AND notebook display on a T42 with dock?

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fancieryu · #1 Post by **fancieryu** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:30 am

Hi,

I have a T42 with Ati 9600 graphics card and SVGA+ display. Recently I got a minidock. I'd like to hook up both DVI and SVGA ports to two monitors and use the notebook display as well, so that I will have THREE displays. It seems that the graphics driver only allow me using at most two displays simultaneously. Is using all these three possible?

noetus · #2 Post by **noetus** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:18 am

As far as I know, this is not possible. You can either have DVI and laptop display, or SVGA+ and laptop display.

fancieryu · #3 Post by **fancieryu** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:35 pm

In fact, all combinations of two different displays are possible. I have tried DVI and SVGA, DVI and laptop display, SVGA and laptop display successfully. I just hope to get all three of them in use so I will have a huge screen

furball4 · #4 Post by **furball4** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:59 pm

For what it's worth, I can't get all three to work. This on either the T4x or T6x series with Port Replicator II and/or Advanced Mini Dock. It would be great though! Seems like there should be plenty of power, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work.

Utwig · #5 Post by **Utwig** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:44 pm

Look into Matrox DualHead2Go or TripleHead2Go.

noetus · #6 Post by **noetus** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:30 am

Utwig wrote:Look into Matrox DualHead2Go or TripleHead2Go.

You see this solution recommeded a lot on this forum but has anyone actually tried it? Seems to me that this is a far cry from having a dual-display on the graphics card itself. I suspect it is slow and won't give you real dual-desktop functionality but a sort of simulation. Anyone actually tried it?

Dual monitors AND notebook display on a T42 with dock?

Dual monitors AND notebook display on a T42 with dock?

all combinations of two are possible.

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