ATI cards + XP + Dual head

[Gavern]

Hi guys,

At work we've FINALLY just upgraded from NT4 to XP Pro... woo hoo..

Been running dual 17" monitors and an ATI Radeon 7500 in dualhead with no
problem (prior to that, a variety of Matrox cards - Millenniums through
G400's.)

In NT4 when running the Radeon 7500, the taskbar stretches across
both screens, as did with all Matrox cards. Now in XP, the taskbar sits only
on the LEFT screen and won't stretch across the right.

Downloaded the latest Catalyst drivers and no change.

Same goes for my Radeon 9100 at home (Upgraded from a G400 earlier)

Anyone have a Radeon card and use dual screen...??

Cheers,
Gavern

 

[Gavern]

Just re-Googled re: askbar and it looks as though a number of people find
this with ATI cards... some people even hate the taskbar stretching across
both screens. For me, having used dual monitors for 10 years, I much prefer
the extra space of a long task bar....specially when I have many programs
open at once.

Doesn't look like a simple solution exists (other than an app like Ultramon,
but this gives yuo two distinct task bars...)

Gavern

 

[Noozer]

Hi guys,

At work we've FINALLY just upgraded from NT4 to XP Pro... woo hoo..

Been running dual 17" monitors and an ATI Radeon 7500 in dualhead with no
problem (prior to that, a variety of Matrox cards - Millenniums through
G400's.)

In NT4 when running the Radeon 7500, the taskbar stretches across
both screens, as did with all Matrox cards. Now in XP, the taskbar sits only
on the LEFT screen and won't stretch across the right.

What you had before wasn't "dual head" it was only "dual monitor". Only one
display region stretched across two monitors. This is a kludge to fool
Windows into using both monitors. Windows drives it as a single display then
the card just outputs each have to separate monitors.

With the new cards, the second monitor is a completely separate display that
can run at a different resolution, etc. from the first. This is the proper
way to handle dual displays.

Matrox cards were really the first to work properly in the NT based versions
of Windows and the rest are playing catchup.

Looking at the Radeon settings, I don't see where this could be adjusted
back to the old single display type.