Second monitor on laptop question

[barrabas]

Hello,
If I connect a second monitor (VGA) on a laptop,
can I use it to run games on?
I want to use a second monitor for 1024 X 768
for 4:3 uses with a widescreen laptop.
The graphics card would be ATI X1600 on Windows XP Pro.
There may not be a way to make the external
monitor the primary one. Hard to say, I've
looked in the pdf guide from ATI, don't have the laptop yet.
A game run like this won't have a window, but
use the full screen of the monitor. So it can't
be dragged over like a normal window.

thanks,
b.

 

[Dr Richard Cranium]

correct me if i am wrong here. but if you plug any monitor into the external monitor port
of a laptop, all you get is a clone of what appears on your laptop screen.



maybe alien ware has some tricked out video mode. But normally laptops sit in a docking
station and external mouse, keyboard, and monitor make the laptop a workstation PC thing.





hope this helps,



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: Hello,
: If I connect a second monitor (VGA) on a laptop,
: can I use it to run games on?
: I want to use a second monitor for 1024 X 768
: for 4:3 uses with a widescreen laptop.
: The graphics card would be ATI X1600 on Windows XP Pro.
: There may not be a way to make the external
: monitor the primary one. Hard to say, I've
: looked in the pdf guide from ATI, don't have the laptop yet.
: A game run like this won't have a window, but
: use the full screen of the monitor. So it can't
: be dragged over like a normal window.
:
: thanks,
: b.
:
:
:




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[vellu]

Yes, you are wrong. That might have been true years ago, but most
current laptops have similar video capabilites as desktop computers
have. That is, they are well capable of running "secondary" displays in
all imaginable fashions; clone, extended or fullscreen video.

In case with Mobility X1600, the drivers for it behave exactly the same
way they do on a desktop computer. Just go to the display section in
Control panel or CCC and choose the way you want to handle your displays.

And yes, you can make an external monitor the primary display, and
naturally use 4:3 resolutions on that (only clone mode will force the
resolution to be the same on both screens).

Don't know which laptop you're referring to, but my Asus A6Ja has the
same chip (X1600) and it has three (yes, 3) external video outputs. RGB,
DVI and s-video TV-out. (RGB and DVI may show the same image, but I
don't have a DVI panel so I can't confirm it)


Dr Richard Cranium kirjoitti:

correct me if i am wrong here. but if you plug any monitor into the external monitor port
of a laptop, all you get is a clone of what appears on your laptop screen.



maybe alien ware has some tricked out video mode. But normally laptops sit in a docking
station and external mouse, keyboard, and monitor make the laptop a workstation PC thing.