Topic awaiting preservation: 2 separate ? Dual monitor/win media player

Dual monitors. platform xp home. Adapters Radeon 9200 Primary. Matrox millennium secondary.

The dual setup is working just fine with one exception. I can only move to the 2nd monitor from the 'right side' of the primary monitor. The cursor then appears on the 'left side' of the 2nd monitor and I can only return to the primary monitor from the 'left side' of the secondary.

Other than that no problems. Both monitors are running at the same resolution. I've been to the ms knowledge base and there's nothing on this specific problem. Any clues?

I gotta tell ya dual monitors are the only way to fly. I have another monitor and adapter kicking around and am VERY tempted to go for 3! (piggy piggy piggy) <lol> but I'd sure like to be able to move about from either side of the screen.

Now about the media player.

One radio station I regularly listen to and access via IE opens in another but smaller fixed size instance of IE. Other radio stations I listen to open in the media player but not this one.

The link below will take you to the site in question. When you click on 'Listen.... ' you will see what I mean.

Also.. when that 2nd instance opens you will hear 2 commercials but not the actual talkshow because the show is over for today and because of royalty issues the station doesn't air its following music programming.

I have a 2.x version of winamp kicking around but have never used it to listen to radio stations... would it work?.. and if so a quick & dirty 'how-to' would be appreciated.

http://www.600am.com/pages/Rafe.html

thanks ppl

I've jsut written this in notepad on the 2nd monitor... cut and paste...drop 'here' in the primary... very nice indeed!

Nojive i run dual monitors off a single card (in dual view nvidia fx 6800 series) the beauty of this is the second monitor acts totally independant of the primary (read no tool bar etc) resolution colour depth totally independant. theoretically speaking i could add another "twin head" video card and run to 4 desktops.....

i dont know if ati have this dual view setup??? can you only extend the whole desktop including task bar across them both???

gimme a few hours to put this in a mini tutorial and i will put up a guide to nvidia based chip sets.... unfortunately i dont have a twin head ati to play with...

(Edited by tomeaglescz on 10-26-2004 01:16)

"can you only extend the whole desktop including task bar across them both???"

Not sure if I understand what you mean exactly.

There's nothing on the 2nd monitor unless I put it there.

Everything, as far as I understand it, is working the way it should with the exception of the mouse. Drag an ap from main to 2nd monitor... or extend the prog window across both screens but you have to drag, notepad say, .. over and off the 'right side' of monitor 1, and each monitor can run a different resolution.

Move the cursor to the 'left side' of monitor 1 and it hits the wall like a game of 'breakout.' It's the 'right side' on monitor #2

I can certainly learn to live with it but figure there must be a cure somewhere.

thnx
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NoJive, hwat you've described is the way Dual monitor setups always work. If you wqanted to be able to go to the other monitor from any side of your first monitor than that would be like having the mouse dissapear out of one side of your screen and reappear in the other in a single-monitor setup. It's rediculous, and I, personally, have never seen a dual monitor setup that allows you to do what you desire. You can though, usually, setup the arrangement of your two monitors on your computer so that you can specify at which point the mouse switches to the other monitor.

ok, and having read it much more carefully, my guess is that you have monitor 1 on the left of monitor 2? Have you ever thought of just switching thier positions on your desk?

no jive thats the way as skaarj said it works, you cant as far as i know use the left side of monitor#1 to go on to the second monitor, if you had a third monitor i dont know if you could say have your main monitor in the center and use both sides to go to the other monitors...

will play with that later...

OK ... thnx. I guess I can physically change the positioning of the monitors.. One's a 17inch the other 15... (which I forgot to mention) and it just seems far more naturual for me to have the smaller screen to the left. Regardles... I really really like this dual biz...

Well, you can always change which monitor is plugged into which adaptor head. (swap the plugs around, same effect without moving the actual monitors)


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