From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 10:09:28 EDT
Chris and Robert,
robert_at_elastica.com [mailto:robert_at_elastica.com] wrote:
> What OS allows otherwise?
Bill is a "little bit" wrong here. W2K won't drive an expanded desktop on _any_
laptop without a second video card installed. W98 and NT4 will drive an expanded
desktop natively with the standard video chip in the laptop on many systems
(570, 600, 770, T, A, X) without the need for an additional video card.
I found this little known fact extremely annoying when I first "upgraded" to W2K
from W98 2 years ago and lost the ability to use my projector to display my
PowerPoint presentations while seeing my presentation notes on the laptop's
display on my 600E and 600X. I've since gotten around this by installing a Margi
Display-to-Go card: http://www.margi.com/products/displaytogo_4MB.html which
allows me to have an expanded desktop during presentations underW2K.
I initially had some problems with the Display-to-Go card in the ZV PCMCIA
socket when I switched it for the Margi DVD-to-Go card that normally resides
there. I cleared the problem by making another profile called "Presentation" and
disabling all the DVD-to-Go drivers.
FWIW, this same lack will be found in the home version of Whistler and will only
be supported natively under XP Pro. At least that's my finding as my XP Beta
_won't_ give me an expanded desktop on my 600X, but that could be more a result
of operator error. You can find a lot more information WRT multi-monitor issues
at: http://128.242.233.25/multimon/
Regards,
James
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