[AG-TECH] video only shows on primary display - thanks

[Stewart Macneill]

Thanks Chris and Allan - I thought I'd tried that but it worked fine after I
rebooted!

Stewart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Macneill" <macneisd at dcs.gla.ac.uk>
To: <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: [AG-TECH] video only shows on primary display


>
> Hi all
>
> Just in the process of coaxing our node into life.  I've got the standard
> G450 AGP and G200 PCI configuration set up on a dual CPU IBM
IntelliStation
> but have a problem in that the video from my cameras only shows up in the
> primary display.
>
> It doesn't seem to matter whether the primary display is set to the LCD
> monitor or a projector, PCI or AGP, as soon as I drag the Vic window onto
> one of the other displays, the feed is lost - if I minimize and restore
then
> the window just picks up whatever is behind it.  If I move it back into
the
> primary display, I see the video again.
>
> The only two oddities I have noticed are that W2K Advanced Server (display
> machine) only reports one of the G450 heads in the Matrox window control
> panel,  and the capture computer (also a dual CPU IntelliStation, Red Hat
> 7.2) reports that it can't find a monitor list and is using the 'main'
> display.  I don't know if that is at all significant.
>
> Has anyone come across this problem?    I had a search through the AG-Tech
> archives, but didn't find anything.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Stewart
>
>
> Stewart D Macneill
> NeSC Systems Manager (Glasgow)
> University of Glasgow
> Dept of Computing Science
> 17 Lilybank Gardens
> G12 8RZ
> Tel:  0141 330 3102 (direct)
> Fax: 0141 330 4913
> email: macneisd at dcs.gla.ac.uk <mailto:macneisd at dcs.gla.ac.uk>
>
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