Posted: 2/18/2007 8:20:50 AM EDT
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I've hooked up an old CRT monitor to my laptop so I can display all of my stuff when working on audio stuff (need to view lots of things at the same time). The CRT is old, and is starting to burn out (the gamma is way low, even with brightness at 100%). I run my laptop at 1400x1050 resolution, and the max of the monitor is 1024x768. The adapter is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. The OS is WinXP Home. It wants to use the monitor as my primary and the laptop monitor as the secondary. (If I activate the desktop to extend to both monitors, the menu is on the CRT.) I can set it as the primary monitor in the "Advanced" section under ATI's displays tab, however it then limits my laptop's resolution to 1024. If it's set as secondary, the resolution can be set at 1400. This makes some sense to me, but I could have sworn there was a way to have the master's resolution larger than the slave's. Is there any way I can make the laptop my Primary, set at 1400, and the CRT as secondary, set at 1024? If I need to download an app, that's fine (freeware is best!  ).Afterwards, is there any app that you can think of that would allow me to increase the brightness on the CRT (secondary) but leave the Laptop (primary) alone? Thanks in advance. |
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You might want to check out an app called "Ultramon", it might allow you to do a two display deal with independent resolutions. I used to use it for one of my old video cards, because it only allowed me to clone one monitor to the other... not have dual independent displays. -d |