Enabling Multi Monitor Support

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Yassir Dotsmah Beh-Beh

A friend asked me for advice on how to enable multi-monitor support
on her laptop. Sucker that I am, I decided to give it a shot. I'm
here asking for advice 'cause I couldn't make it work.
She needs true multi-monitor mode (not clone, not span) for a
specialty application (an eeg biofeedback program). The laptop works
in clone mode just fine, but it won't allow you to go to
multi-monitor.

The laptop:
Pentium 4, 3.0ghz
512 meg memory
Display adapter: Radeon mobile 9000
OS: WinXP Professional

My questions:
1. Can anyone point me to a clear howto with step-by-step
instructions? Google didn't point me to anything useful, ATI's
website was similarly unhelpful. :- (
2. Device manager shows the ATI graphics adapter installed and
working properly. I have found references pointing to the need for
installing a secondary adapter driver. Do I need to install this?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Yassir
 
A friend asked me for advice on how to enable multi-monitor support
on her laptop. Sucker that I am, I decided to give it a shot. I'm
here asking for advice 'cause I couldn't make it work.
She needs true multi-monitor mode (not clone, not span) for a
specialty application (an eeg biofeedback program). The laptop works
in clone mode just fine, but it won't allow you to go to
multi-monitor.

The laptop:
Pentium 4, 3.0ghz
512 meg memory
Display adapter: Radeon mobile 9000
OS: WinXP Professional

My questions:
1. Can anyone point me to a clear howto with step-by-step
instructions? Google didn't point me to anything useful, ATI's
website was similarly unhelpful. :- (
2. Device manager shows the ATI graphics adapter installed and
working properly. I have found references pointing to the need for
installing a secondary adapter driver. Do I need to install this?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Yassir
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Are you sure the laptop is capable of multi-monitor operation? In the case
of a desktop, your secondary display adapter must be multi-monitor capable.
Your primary can be anything, but the secondary must be multi-monitor
capable. I haven't seen a laptop with a video adapter that was truly
multi-monitor capable. -Dave
 
Are you sure the laptop is capable of multi-monitor operation? In the case
of a desktop, your secondary display adapter must be multi-monitor capable.
Your primary can be anything, but the secondary must be multi-monitor
capable. I haven't seen a laptop with a video adapter that was truly
multi-monitor capable. -Dave
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Yes, Dave, I am pretty certain of it. The laptop (new) was
purchased from the company that sells the biofeedback hardware and
they represent it as a computer that is capable of supporting their
dual-monitor-requiring software/hardware combo. Also, this webpage
from ATI describes this computer's mobile graphics adapter as dual
monitor capable (but doesn't describe how to implement it
(~~grrrrr~~)).
http://mirror.ati.com/products/mobilityfgl9000/index.html
Also FWIW the clinical psychologist my friend is receiving her
training from is also running the program from a laptop, in dual
monitor mode.

Do you know if I need to install a secondary adapter driver to
enable dual monitor support in this (or any computer)? ATI provides a
program called 'Hydravision' as a free download for dual monitor
support, again without clear instructions about it's use.

Any help is appreciated. Might be that my friend is gonna need to
spend some time with tech support.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Yassir
 
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