hi,

we recently purchased the matrox parhelia card with triple outputs, hoping to
use it for 2 projector displays and 1 console display, which requires 3
independent displays. however, it seems that the drivers only support 2
independent or stretched displays + 1 "Feature" display (only takes input from
DVD, etc.???) or 3 stretched displays.

1) is this really the case?

the 3 stretched displays work except that if the primary display is an end one,
then some apps will pop up in the middle display (projector); or if the primary
display is the middle one, then the icons on the desktop tend to live on the
leftmost display (another projector).

2) anyone else encountered this and/or have any suggestions? otherwise, i'll
have to buy a PCI card for the console display and leave the 3rd parhelia output
for when i might have a third projector (but it seems a waste not to use it).

3) given the price of the matrox g400 at over $500, are there less expensive PCI
cards that are of equal performance and that would be compatible with the
parhelia card to create a single logical display? i'm assuming that sticking to
the same vendor might be safer?

thanks for any feedback,

-gurcharan
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Gurcharan S. Khanna, Associate Director
Research Computing, Dartmouth College
gkhanna@dartmouth.edu
office: 603-646-1644
http://research.dartmouth.edu/
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