[AG-TECH] Hardware concern ...

[Rosario Lombardo]

Somehow late, but could help somebody,

Breuer, Roman wrote:
>  The second amazing fact is,
> that when you place a vic-window on the second display of the QID-card
> the frame appears on tat display, but the video will be displayed on the
> first display.... :(
>   
It is only needed to upgrade to latest (windows-certified if you prefer) 
drivers to solve the problem:

Supports Quad Stretched and Independent
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/xp2k_201_00_081_se_whql.cfm

I also upgrade the BIOS but I didn't notice any remarkable improvenment.

\\Rosario

> To make an long story short: My actual configuration is like the Pauls
> config. I use one dual-head videocard (Matrox G550 PCI) for the two
> rearprojections and the QUI card for the local monitor... What a shame
> :( But it works. Two low cost G550 are cheaper and better than one
> expensive QID-quad videocard. And I can display video on all three
> displays.
>
>   
>> uses is joint teaching of a Physics 4th year course that has students
>> here and at a remote site (Rutherford Appleton, for the UK readers of
>> this list). We sometimes played a DVD locally at each site, and some
>> players - I think some versions of media player and Cyberlink
>> PowerDVD - get upset at running full-screen on a secondary graphics
>> card. The master card drives the console monitor, only using one of
>>     
> I have not found out any problem in displaying fullscreen with the
> mediaplayer on the secondary display of my g550. But I am an little bit
> surprised, because I expected the same problem, as you describe.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roman
>
>   
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